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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.
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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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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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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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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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Health anxiety and patient behavior
Journal of Health Economics, 2003Economic models of patient decision-making emphasize the costs of getting medical attention and the improved physical health that results from it. This note builds a model of patient decision-making when fears or anxiety about the future-captured as beliefs about next period's state of health-also enter the patient's utility function.
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The Impact of Health Anxiety on Voice Health in Teachers
Journal of VoiceTeachers are exposed to prolonged and high-intensity voice use due to their profession, which can lead to voice disorders and functional problems. Health anxiety refers to persistent worry about having or acquiring a serious illness, often out of proportion to the individual's actual health condition or minor symptoms.
Buse Çetinkaya +2 more
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