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An Examination of the Effects of Health-related Internet Use in Individuals With Pathological Health Anxiety

NCT03024593 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 80

Last updated 2017-01-19

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Summary

The purpose of the current study is to examine the effects of health-related internet use on affect, health anxiety and symptom severity in individuals with pathological levels of health anxiety. The present randomized controlled study compares an online medical searching condition with a waiting (i.e. non-searching) condition to manipulate the attentional focus. After an induction of health anxiety using the Autobiographical Emotional Memory Task the participants in the searching condition go online and search for subjectively relevant health information (external focus of attention). Individuals in the waiting (i.e. non-searching) condition are requested to do nothing and not to distract themselves (internal focus of attention).

Conditions

  • Hypochondriasis

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Health- and illness-related internet use

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Cologne

    collaborator OTHER

  • Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Michael Witthoeft, Professor · Department of Clinical Psychology, Psychotherapy and Experimental Psychopathology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Primary Completion
2018-09-30

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