How online searches fuel health anxiety: Investigating the link between health-related searches, health anxiety, and future intention

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Highlights：

• Validating the detrimental effect of online searches on health anxiety.

• Body vigilance/Catastrophic misinterpretation significantly increase healthcare use.

• No significant associations between health anxiety and further search intention.

• Confirming the interactive effect of efficacy beliefs and illness likelihood.

摘要

•Validating the detrimental effect of online searches on health anxiety.•Body vigilance/Catastrophic misinterpretation significantly increase healthcare use.•No significant associations between health anxiety and further search intention.•Confirming the interactive effect of efficacy beliefs and illness likelihood.

论文关键词：Online Searches,Health anxiety,Healthcare utilization,Efficacy beliefs

论文评审过程：Received 2 November 2021, Revised 22 June 2022, Accepted 27 June 2022, Available online 30 June 2022, Version of Record 1 July 2022.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2022.107384