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Irrational health beliefs and health anxiety
Journal of Clinical Psychology, 2010The Irrational Health Belief Scale (IHBS) assesses the tendency to appraise health-related information in an irrational manner. Despite the central role that dysfunctional assumptions about health play in the cognitive-behavioral model of hypochondriasis and health anxiety, researchers have not examined the relation between health anxiety and the types
Fulton, Jessica J. +2 more
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British Journal of Nursing, 1994
There have been three main approaches to the problem of tinnitus. First, attempts have been made to deal with the pathophysiological aspects. Second, there have been efforts to deal with the psychological effects. Third, and more recently, research has been undertaken to try to identify the predictors of distress.
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There have been three main approaches to the problem of tinnitus. First, attempts have been made to deal with the pathophysiological aspects. Second, there have been efforts to deal with the psychological effects. Third, and more recently, research has been undertaken to try to identify the predictors of distress.
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Health anxiety in medical students
The Lancet, 1998matched medical and law students (60 in each group), and found that medical students attended to their health and somatic symptoms more than law students but there was no significant difference in the rate of hypochondriasis. In January, 1996, a short illness behaviour questionnaire* (the Whitley index, a version of the Illness Behaviour Questionnaire)
O D, Howes, P M, Salkovskis
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The relationship between childhood health anxiety, parent health anxiety, and associated constructs
Journal of Health Psychology, 2015The purpose of the present investigation was to explore the relationship between self-reported childhood health anxiety and self-reported parent health anxiety and associated constructs. Participants were 77 children (8–15 years) and one parent or guardian of each child.
Kristi D, Wright +2 more
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Health, Hierarchy, and Social Anxiety
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1999Abstract:This paper suggests that the main reasons why populations with narrower income differences tend to have lower mortality rates are to be found in the psychosocial impact of low social status. There is now substantial evidence showing that where income differences are greater, violence tends to be more common, people are less likely to trust ...
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Gender differences in health anxiety: An investigation of the interpersonal model of health anxiety
Personality and Individual Differences, 2009Health anxiety (HA) involves persistent worry about one's health and beliefs one has an illness or may contract a disease. In the present study, gender differences in Noyes et al.'s (2003) interpersonal model of health anxiety (IMHA) were examined.
Kerry Lynn H. MacSwain +5 more
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Health anxiety in children and parents
BMJ, 2016Tyrer and colleagues’ editorial helpfully raises the profile of health anxiety in patients who are frequent attenders at GP surgeries and clinics.1 Health anxiety is also a possibility in children and young people who …
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A taxometric analysis of health anxiety
Psychological Medicine, 2008BackgroundA long-standing issue in the health anxiety literature is the extent to which health anxiety is a dimensional or a categorical construct. This study explores this question directly using taxometric procedures.MethodSeven hundred and eleven working adults completed an index of health anxiety [the Whiteley Index (WI)] and indicated their ...
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The Health Anxiety Questionnaire
British Journal of Health Psychology, 1996Despite its high prevalence and implications for health care resources, health anxiety is still a relatively neglected area of research. This paper describes the development of the Health Anxiety Questionnaire (HAQ), a measure based on a cognitive–behavioural analysis of health anxiety. The measure was developed to identify individuals with high levels
Michael P. Lucock, Stephen Morley
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