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Objective: People with high health concerns prefer to get information from sources such as the internet, television, rather than to get help from health staff. These sources of information can further increase the patient’s anxiety and seriously disrupt its functionality. This study aims to identify the relationship between health anxiety and motivation to monitor health programs in patients in the hospital and surgical clinics. Tools and Methods: 199 patients were taken to study, hospitalized and hospitalized in clinics. In the collection of data, the Demographic Information Form, the Health Anxiety Scale (SAO) and the Monitoring Motivation Scale (SPIMO) were used. In the assessment of the data; visual statistics such as number, percentage, average and standard deviation, as well as Pearson Correlation Analysis, Mann Whitney U Test and Kruskal Wallis Test were used. Results: Patients have been found to have increased their overall SAO ratio by being a woman, having a chronic illness and therefore taking medications, monitoring their health programs and poorly perceiving their socio-economic levels at the statistical level of significance (p <0,05). In addition, a strong positive relationship between the patient's SPIMO scores and the excess sensitivity to the physical symptoms and the size of anxiety was detected, while a positive middle-level relationship between the size of the negative consequences of the disease was detected (r = 0,951, p <0,001; r = 0,621, p <0,001). Result: This study has shown that in patients in the clinics of intrusion and surgical clinics there is a relationship between the levels of health anxiety and the motivations to monitor health programs. The patient’s health anxiety levels are determined and patients with severe health anxiety are recommended to receive psychological assistance with a cognitive behavioral approach.

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