{"id":2852,"date":"2020-12-18T14:25:21","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T22:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2852"},"modified":"2020-12-21T14:27:44","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T22:27:44","slug":"cyberchondria-in-the-age-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/18\/cyberchondria-in-the-age-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyberchondria in the Age of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>A study examining the relationship between cyberchondria (excessively searching the web for health-related information) and COVID-19 concern and safety behaviors in Croatia found that high cyberchondria and high levels of concern were associated with intense avoidance behaviors. There was a pronounced increase in concerns regarding COVID-19 as well as significant behavioral changes between the day of the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in Croatia (February 24th, 2020) and the day of the first COVID-19 fatality (March 19th, 2020). Results indicated that cyberchondria played a role in these changes, and the authors suggest that cyberchondria may be a contributing factor to long-term anxiety.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jokic-Begic et al. (Dec 17, 2020). Cyberchondria in the Age of COVID-19. PLOS ONE. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0243704\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0243704<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study examining the relationship between cyberchondria (excessively searching the web for health-related information) and COVID-19 concern and safety behaviors in Croatia found that high cyberchondria and high levels of concern were associated with intense avoidance behaviors. There was a pronounced increase in concerns regarding COVID-19 as well as significant behavioral changes between the day&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/18\/cyberchondria-in-the-age-of-covid-19\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[44],"topic":[18],"class_list":["post-2852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-mental-health-personal-impact","topic-mental-health-and-personal-impact"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2853,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852\/revisions\/2853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2852"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}