Open AccessEvaluating the cyberchondria construct among computer engineering students in Pune (India) Using Cyberchondria Severity Scale (CSS-15)
Author(s) -
Deepika Dagar,
Pradnya Kakodkar,
Sahana Hegde Shetiya
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
the indian journal of occupational and environmental medicine/the indian journal of occupational and environmental medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.375
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1998-3670
pISSN - 0973-2284
DOI - 10.4103/ijoem.ijoem_217_19
Subject(s) - construct (python library) , likert scale , distress , anxiety , the internet , affect (linguistics) , descriptive statistics , scale (ratio) , psychology , construct validity , clinical psychology , medicine , medical education , computer science , psychiatry , developmental psychology , world wide web , psychometrics , statistics , physics , mathematics , communication , quantum mechanics , programming language
The Internet has become an important tool in day-to-day life. Reading medical data from Internet sources can have a negative impact on the common man. Anxiety due to excess searching for medical information online is known as cyberchondria.