Table 3 Associations between cyberchondria and smartphone addiction among the studied sample of medical students in Egyptian universities (N = 1435)
Descriptive statistics of Cyberchondria Severity Scale and Smartphone Addiction Scale | |||||
No. (%) | |||||
Cyberchondria Severity Scale Mean (SD) | Compulsion | 7.5 (3) | |||
Distress | 7.7 (3) | ||||
Excessiveness | 9.2 (3) | ||||
Reassurance | 7.8 (3) | ||||
Total score | 32.2 (9) | ||||
Cyberchondria categories Frequency (%) | Low < 25th | 55 (3.8) | |||
Moderate 25th–75th | 1231 (85.8) | ||||
High ˃ 75th | 149 (10.4) | ||||
Smartphone Addiction Scale Mean (SD) | Total score | 34.3 (12) | |||
Smartphone addiction categories Frequency (%) | Present | 827 (57.6) | |||
Absent | 608 (42.4) | ||||
Analytic statistics of Cyberchondria Severity Scale and Smartphone Addiction Scale | |||||
Correlations | Smartphone Addiction Score | ||||
R | p-value | ||||
Compulsion | 0.234 | 0.0001* | |||
Distress | 0.257 | 0.0001* | |||
Excessiveness | 0.292 | 0.0001* | |||
Reassurance | 0.191 | 0.0001* | |||
Total cyberchondria score | 0.296 | 0.0001* | |||
Associations: Frequency (%) | Cyberchondria | ||||
Low | Moderate | High | p-value | ||
Smartphone Addiction Scale | Addict | 21 (38.2) | 692 (56.2) | 114 (76.5) | < 0.05** |
Non-addict | 34 (61.8) | 539 (43.8) | 35 (23.5) | ||