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All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality Among Individuals With Hypochondriasis.

open access: yesJAMA Psychiatry
Mataix-Cols D   +13 more
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Hypochondriasis

Behaviour Research and Therapy, 1990
Hypochondriasis and other syndromes in which health anxiety is prominent are frequently seen in clinical practice and often pose problems of management. In contrast with other anxiety problems, the conceptualization and treatment of health anxiety has developed very little in recent years.
H M, Warwick, P M, Salkovskis
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Transient Hypochondriasis

Archives of General Psychiatry, 1990
Consecutive visitors to a general medicine outpatient clinic were screened with a hypochondriasis questionnaire. Two thirds (n = 41) of those exceeding a preestablished cutoff met the criteria for DSM-III-R hypochondriasis when given a structured diagnostic interview, while the other third (n = 22) did not. The latter group showed significant decreases
A J, Barsky, G, Wyshak, G L, Klerman
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Avoidance in hypochondriasis

Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 2016
The DSM-5 diagnosis of illness anxiety disorder adds avoidance as a component of a behavioral response to illness fears - one that was not present in prior DSM criteria of hypochondriasis. However, maladaptive avoidance as a necessary or useful criterion has yet to be empirically supported.195 individuals meeting DSM-IV criteria for hypochondriasis ...
Emily R, Doherty-Torstrick   +3 more
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Hypochondriasis and the Elderly

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 1976
ABSTRACT: Hypochondriasis is poorly understood and poorly treated. Attempts to classify it have been unsatisfactory except for Pilowsky's division into primary and secondary groups. Twenty consecutive cases of hypochondriasis in elderly patients were studied; 4 were of the primary type and 16 of the secondary ...
S E, Goldstein, F, Birnbom
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Assessment of hypochondriasis

Behaviour Research and Therapy, 1995
This article gives a detailed description of the assessment of hypochondriasis. Other conditions are described in which this type of assessment can be useful. The aims of assessment are outlined, followed by a full description of the information that should be obtained, and methods of assessment used.
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Psychotherapies for hypochondriasis

2007
Hypochondriasis is associated with significant medical morbidity and high health resource use. Recent studies have examined the treatment of hypochondriasis using various forms of psychotherapy.To examine the effectiveness and comparative effectiveness of any form of psychotherapy for the treatment of hypochondriasis.1.
A B, Thomson, L A, Page
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Hypochondriasis and Somatization

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1987
Between 60% and 80% of healthy individuals experience somatic symptoms in any one week. About 10% to 20% of a random sample of people worry intermittently about illness. A substantial proportion of patients present physicians with somatic complaints for which no organic cause can be found.
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Hypochondriasis

2007
Hypochondriasis is considered a severe and clinically significant type of health anxiety. Excessive health anxiety is the hallmark of hypochondriasis. In many ways, the cognitive and behavioral presentations of hypochondriacal patients resemble those of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
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