HUBUNGAN LITERASI KESEHATAN DIGITAL DENGAN CYBERCHONDRIA PADA USIA DEWASA AWAL

The ease of accessing health content can lead to increased anxiety as a result of excessive search for health information and this condition is called cyberchondria. Anxiety arising from unclear perceptions of health conditions leads a person to search continuously and causes ongoing fear. Exposure to health information on digital platforms is still not absolutely true. Most people have not been able to filter and assess the quality of the information found. So their condition can get worse when they consume the wrong information. Therefore, people need to be careful in processing information from health content in order to decide the right steps. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between digital health literacy and cyberchondria in early adulthood. The method in this study uses quantitative correlation with purposive sampling technique which aims to determine the sample according to the required criteria. The subject of this research is someone who is categorized as an early adult with the age of 18-40 years. The sample size in this study was 221 people. The research instruments used were e-Health Literacy Instrument and Cyberchondria Severity Scale 12. Data collection uses google forms that are distributed through social media such as whatsapp and instagram. Hypothesis testing using Pearson correlation test. The results of the analysis test show that the relationship between digital health literacy and cyberchondria has a correlation of 0.574. These results explain the positive relationship between digital health literacy and cyberchondria.