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Mechanistic studies in pathological health anxiety: A systematic review and emerging conceptual framework. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Affect Disord
Guthrie AJ   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Health Anxiety, Hypochondriasis, and the Anxiety Disorders

Behavior Therapy, 2007
Although clinical observations suggest that health-related anxiety is present, to some extent, in a number of anxiety disorders, this relationship has not been examined empirically. The present study therefore utilized the Short Health Anxiety Inventory (SHAI) to elucidate the structure of such symptoms among patients with anxiety disorders and to ...
Jonathan S, Abramowitz   +2 more
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Irrational health beliefs and health anxiety

Journal of Clinical Psychology, 2010
The 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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Health anxiety in medical students

The Lancet, 1998
matched 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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Tinnitus and health anxiety

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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The relationship between childhood health anxiety, parent health anxiety, and associated constructs

Journal of Health Psychology, 2015
The 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 anxiety by proxy in women with severe health anxiety: A case control study

Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 2017
Health anxiety (HA) refers to excessive worries and anxiety about harbouring serious illness based on misinterpretation of bodily sensations or changes as signs of serious illness. Severe HA is associated with disability and high health care costs. However, the impact of parental HA on excessive concern with their children's health (health anxiety by ...
Thorgaard, Mette Viller   +7 more
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Factors influencing health anxiety

BPS Branch Awards, 2023
Health anxiety can have a detrimental impact to psychological wellbeing and is linked to increased healthcare utilisation and associated costs for healthcare providers. This study investigated relationships between health anxiety and age, gender, trait anxiety, medical care-seeking, and serious illness diagnosis in the individual and their blood ...
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