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comforting emotional state (health concerns).People who are more concerned about their health tend to perform these searches more frequently and, thus, become more concerned.4 McElroy and Shevlin created the Cyberchondria Severity Scale (CSS) as a selfreport psychometric tool to assess health anxiety brought on by in-depth online health searches.
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