Examination of health anxiety by age and gender in adult individuals during COVID-19 viruse outbreak

Introduction; Anxiety is defined as a reaction to undefined and ambiguous threats and dangers with physiological, psychological and behavioral patterns and affects the whole system and existence of the human being. Health anxiety, which is included in anxiety disorders, is expressed as an excessive concern for the health of the person or perceiving the changes in his body as a harbinger of a serious illness. In the face of stressful life events, individuals experience health anxiety as well as fear of death and death anxiety arises. Death anxiety is also defined as the feeling that people may lose themselves, their loved ones and the result of being aware of the unknown after death.