Bin Abdulrahman Khalid A, Al Musfir Sultan Khalid, Alforaih Abdullah Suliman, Alshehri Asim Mohammed, Aldossari Ayed Khalid, Dawood Fahad Dawood Bin
Department of Medical Education, College of Medicine, Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Department of Family Medicine, College of Medicine, Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
J Family Med Prim Care. 2024 Nov;13(11):5334-5340. doi: 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_640_24. Epub 2024 Nov 18.
The internet significantly impacts the occurrence and prevalence of cyberchondria because it provides easy access to a large amount of health data that can describe any medical condition in detail. Cyberchondria develops due to exposure to the vast and easily accessible online health information that causes health worries.
To assess the prevalence of cyberchondria among Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU) students and determine the impact of patient skepticism on medical decisions.
A cross-sectional study was conducted among IMSIU students. A questionnaire was distributed to participants via Google Forms. Data were collected and analyzed by using SPSS.
This study involved 798 respondents. Female participants represented 51.1%. Most of the participants were between 21 and 23 years old. More than one-third of students studied in the College of Medicine (36%). Almost 20% of students panicked about their condition when they read online. Excessiveness was the most severely affected construct (63.7%), followed by the reassurance subscale (46.4%). Compulsion was the least affected construct, while distress was moderately affected. Divorced and married students showed significantly higher cyberchondria severity scores than single respondents ( value = 0.020).
Our findings suggested that IMSIU students had a relatively high prevalence of cyberchondria. More efforts are required to raise public awareness of appropriate internet usage for health-related information.
互联网对网络疑病症的发生和流行有重大影响，因为它使人们能够轻松获取大量可详细描述任何医疗状况的健康数据。网络疑病症是由于接触大量易于获取的在线健康信息而引发健康担忧所致。
评估伊玛目穆罕默德·本·沙特伊斯兰大学（IMSIU）学生中网络疑病症的患病率，并确定患者怀疑态度对医疗决策的影响。
对IMSIU学生进行了一项横断面研究。通过谷歌表单向参与者分发问卷。使用SPSS收集和分析数据。
本研究涉及798名受访者。女性参与者占51.1%。大多数参与者年龄在21至23岁之间。超过三分之一的学生在医学院学习（36%）。近20%的学生在网上阅读时对自己的病情感到恐慌。过度担忧是受影响最严重的因素（63.7%），其次是安心亚量表（46.4%）。强迫观念是受影响最小的因素，而困扰则受到中度影响。离婚和已婚学生的网络疑病症严重程度得分显著高于单身受访者（值 = 0.020）。
我们的研究结果表明，IMSIU学生中网络疑病症的患病率相对较高。需要做出更多努力来提高公众对合理使用互联网获取健康相关信息的认识。
