The effect of cyberchondria on anxiety, depression and quality of life during COVID-19: the mediational role of obsessive-compulsive symptoms and Internet addiction
Since the global pandemic of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), online health information-seeking behaviors have notably increased.Cyberchondria can be a vulnerability factor for the worsening of anxiety-depressive symptoms and quality of life.The current study aims to understand the predictive effect of cyberchondria on health anxiety, anxie