Digitalization and Urological Diseases: Severity of Cyberchondria and Level of Health Anxiety in Patients Visiting Outpatient Urology Clinics

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dc.contributor.authorOzkent, Mehmet Serkan
dc.contributor.authorKilinc, Muzaffer Tansel
dc.contributor.authorHamarat, Mustafa Bilal
dc.contributor.authorYilmaz, Burak
dc.contributor.authorGoger, Yunus Emre
dc.contributor.authorOzkent, Yasemin
dc.contributor.authorPiskin, Mehmet Mesut
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-23T14:20:57Z
dc.date.available2024-02-23T14:20:57Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.departmentNEÜen_US
dc.description.abstractThis study aimed to evaluate the cyberchondria levels of patients who applied to the urology outpatient clinic. The second goal of this study was to evaluate the relationship between cyberchondria severity and health anxiety in these patients. The present prospective observational study was conducted at the urology outpatient clinic of two tertiary centers in our city between September and December 2021. Eligible patients were the adult patients (>18 and <= 60 years) who used the Internet for health purposes and had no self-reported psychological or mental disease. The patients were divided into following groups according to their complaints: general urology, uro-oncology, andrology, functional urology, and endourology (stone disease). The level of cyberchondria and health anxiety was evaluated for these patients by using the Short Health Anxiety Inventory (SHAI) and a short-form version of the Cyberchondria Severity Scale (CSS-12). This study enrolled 578 patients (190 female, 388 male). The mean age of patients was 43.4 +/- 13.3 years (18-60 years). The mean CSS-12 was 28.1 +/- 12.1, and the mean value of SHAI was 18.9 +/- 13.6. The patients had andrological symptoms, is uniquely related to higher CSS and health anxiety, and followed by uro-oncological diseases. However, the least relationship was observed in patients with functional urological diseases (analysis of variance [ANOVA], p < 0.001 for CSS-12; p < 0.001 for SHAI). In addition, a positive correlation was observed between the CSS and SHAI (Pearson's correlation = 0.782). The increased level of cyberchondria causes increased health anxiety and an increased disease burden in these patients. Therefore, physicians should consider this increased treatment burden during the treatment of patients.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1089/cyber.2022.0089
dc.identifier.endpage34en_US
dc.identifier.issn2152-2715
dc.identifier.issn2152-2723
dc.identifier.issue1en_US
dc.identifier.pmid36454182en_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85147044548en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1en_US
dc.identifier.startpage28en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2022.0089
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12452/13375
dc.identifier.volume26en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000892829400001en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ1en_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopusen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakPubMeden_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherMary Ann Liebert, Incen_US
dc.relation.ispartofCyberpsychology Behavior And Social Networkingen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.subjectCyberchondriaen_US
dc.subjectDigital Transformationen_US
dc.subjectUrological Diseasesen_US
dc.subjectHealth Anxietyen_US
dc.titleDigitalization and Urological Diseases: Severity of Cyberchondria and Level of Health Anxiety in Patients Visiting Outpatient Urology Clinicsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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