Cyberchondria

Cyberchondria, otherwise known as compucondria, is the unfounded escalation of concerns about common symptomology based on review of search results and literature online.[1][2] Articles in popular media position cyberchondria anywhere from temporary neurotic excess to adjunct hypochondria. Cyberchondria is a growing concern among many healthcare practitioners as patients can now research any and all symptoms of a rare disease, illness or condition, and manifest a state of medical anxiety.[3][4]

  1. ^ Ryen White; Eric Horvitz (2009). "Cyberchondria: Studies of the escalation of medical concerns in Web search". ACM Transactions on Information Systems. 27 (4): 1–37. doi:10.1145/1629096.1629101. S2CID 10984735.
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  3. ^ Ferguson, Leila (2013-12-04). "Web research could give you a bad dose of cyberchondria". The Conversation. Retrieved 2017-07-20.
  4. ^ Thomas, Elizabeth (11 June 2018). "Be wary of Dr Google". The Asian Age.