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A Comparative Study on Hypochondriasis Among Medical and Dental Students in Post-COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Study. [PDF]

Health Sci Rep
ABSTRACT Background and Aims Health anxiety can be common for health professions students and was elevated during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Differences in clinical exposures between dental and medical students can influence post‐pandemic hypochondriasis.
Darshan S, Bodani N, Lal A, Maqsood A, Ahmed N, Altamash S, Heboyan A.   +6 more
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Illness Anxiety Disorder Manifesting as Huntington's Disease: A Rare Case Report. [PDF]

Clin Case Rep
ABSTRACT Illness anxiety disorder (IAD) is a psychological disorder characterized by an exaggerated preoccupation with the possibility of having a serious illness even in the absence of somatic symptoms. A 38‐year‐old woman presented to the clinic complaining of rhythmic and involuntary movements of her head and body.
Ziyaei A, Marzban A, Pourjafar F, Khooshab MS, Bidaki R.   +4 more
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Illness anxiety disorder and its relationship with social health in the elderly, Isfahan, Iran

Advanced Biomedical Research, 2022
Background: The present study investigated the prevalence of illness anxiety disorder and its relationship with social health in the elderly population.
Neda Tavakoli, Saeed Kaviani, Zahra Amini   +2 more
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Resilience level and its relationship with hypochondriasis in nurses working in COVID-19 reference hospitals

BMC Nursing, 2021
Introduction A new coronavirus, called COVID-19, is an acute respiratory disease, which may arouse many psychological disorders since there is no specialized knowledge about it.
Ali Reza Yusefi, Salman Daneshi, Esmat Rezabeigi Davarani, Parnian Nikmanesh, Gholamhossein Mehralian, Peivand Bastani   +5 more
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Gray Matter Volume and Functional Connectivity in Hypochondriasis: A Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Support Vector Machine Analysis

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2020
Objective: Patients with hypochondriasis hold unexplainable beliefs and a fear of having a lethal disease, with poor compliances and treatment response to psychotropic drugs.
Zhe Shen, Zhe Shen, Zhe Shen, Liang Yu, Zhiyong Zhao, Kangyu Jin, Kangyu Jin, Kangyu Jin, Fen Pan, Fen Pan, Fen Pan, Shaohua Hu, Shaohua Hu, Shaohua Hu, Shangda Li, Shangda Li, Shangda Li, Yi Xu, Yi Xu, Yi Xu, Dongrong Xu, Manli Huang, Manli Huang, Manli Huang   +23 more
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Validity of Current Treatment Protocols to Overcome Hypochondriasis [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2017
Hypochondriasis has been difficult to define and its classification amongst diseases has been blurred since, time immemorial. Though decades have been passed since its discovery and known to the people that the disorder is of the mind itself, the ...
Shrayash Khare, Meher Narain Srivastava
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A Helix of Anxiety: A Qualitative Analysis of the Personal Experiences of Individuals with Health Anxiety

Psikoloji Çalışmaları, 2022
Hypochondria is at the center of debates about the mind-body problem in that those individuals with this symptom experience physical complaints in the absence of ‘real’ illness.
Burcu Pınar Bulut, Özlem Bozo
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A different hypochondriasis: a case report

Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, 2015
Hypochondriasis is characterized by preoccupation of having serious physical illness. Most patients with hypochondriasis worry about physical diseases like cancers and cardiac diseases. However, little is known about this rare subtype of hypochondriasis.
Cicek Hocaoğlu
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Prevalence of Illness Anxiety Disorder and Its Relation to Anxiety Among Medical Students in Karachi: A Cross-Sectional Study. [PDF]

Brain Behav
Background Medical education may increase health‐related anxiety (illness anxiety disorder), often referred to as medical student syndrome. Methods Cross‐sectional study (Feb–May 2025) 300 MBBS students (1st–5th year) – Karachi Assessment tools: Short Health Anxiety Inventory (SHAI) GAD‐7 Anxiety Scale Medical Students’ Disease Perception and Distress ...
Aftab W, Fnu H, Jillani SAQ, Imtiaz S, Zahoor MA, Fatima S, Khalid M, Segawa F.   +7 more
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Hypochondriasis: Clinical profile in a tertiary care psychiatry and neurosciences hospital in Southern India – A retrospective chart review

Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine, 2019
Background: Hypochondriasis is a complex disorder in the realm of psychosomatic medicine, yet understudied in India. The aim of this study was to assess the clinical profile of patients diagnosed with hypochondriasis. Materials and Methods: Retrospective
N Pavithra, Ajit Bhalchandra Dahale, Geetha Desai, Santosh Kumar Chaturvedi   +3 more
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