Examining the relationships between e-health literacy, cyberchondria, health anxiety, and health perception among foreign university students
Harun Aslan, Gülsüm Şeyma Koca · 2025
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Harun Aslan and Gülsüm Şeyma Koca, publishing in 2025, study how foreign university students in Turkey handle health worries online. Students abroad face language barriers and an unfamiliar health system, so many turn to the internet. There, anxious searching can feed a loop. Poor views of one's own health drive more searching, which raises health anxiety. That anxiety can in turn erode the ability to judge online health information well. The authors surveyed 352 such students at one university.
Their analysis found that how students view their health predicted how well they could use online health information, with anxious searching and health anxiety carrying much of that effect in a chain. Students with negative views of their health searched more, worried more, and judged sources worse. The authors call for digital health programs shaped to these students' cultures to cut through misinformation.
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| CREATOR | Harun Aslan, Gülsüm Şeyma Koca |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 64 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |