ReviewCurrent psychiatry reports2018
Recent Advances in the Understanding and Treatment of Health Anxiety.
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- Equity implications of extended reality technologies for health and procedural anxiety: a systematic review and implementation-focused framework.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2025Pooled it
- Ethnic and migration-related inequalities in health anxiety: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Pooled it
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- Illness anxiety disorder: A qualitative study of people with health anxiety and their experiences seeking and avoiding medical care.The British journal of clinical psychology · 2026Article
- Examining the relationships between e-health literacy, cyberchondria, health anxiety, and health perception among foreign university students.BMC public health · 2025Article
- The association between health anxiety and visits to traditional and complementary medicine providers in Norway: the Tromsø7 Study.BMC complementary medicine and therapies · 2025Article
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- The Peking Health Anxiety Scale for Infectious Diseases: psychometric properties and short-form development.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Health anxiety and physical activity among young and middle-aged employees: the role of self-compassion and coping strategies.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Risk of self-harm in patients with hypochondriasis: a population-based cohort study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- A transdiagnostic approach to investigate of the relationships between anxiety sensitivity and health anxiety: the mediated roles of distress tolerance and emotion regulation.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- The Spanish adaptation of the Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia Heart: psychometric evidence in cardiac rehabilitation patients.European journal of physical and rehabilitation medicine · 2024Article
- Illness Anxiety Disorder: A Review of the Current Research and Future Directions.Current psychiatry reports · 2024Review
- Client perspectives on creating supportive sexual health environments for people with persistent anxiety: a qualitative study.BMJ public health · 2024Article
- The impact of source and consumption of news on mental distress among inflammatory bowel disease patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.Journal of the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology · 2024Article
- Health anxiety during a global pandemic: a comparison of medical and non-medical students in Mashhad, Iran.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Pandemic life in families with health anxiety symptoms, parental perspectives.Scandinavian journal of child and adolescent psychiatry and psychology · 2024Article
- The prevalence and determinants of health anxiety during the covid-19 pandemic: A systematic review and meta-analysis.PLOS mental health · 2024Article
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Abstract
purpose of reviewTo examine the diagnosis of health anxiety, its prevalence in different settings, public health significance, treatment, and outcome. RECENT
findingsHealth anxiety is similar to hypochondriasis but is characterized by fear of, rather than conviction of, illness. Lifetime prevalence rates are 6% in the population and as high as 20% in hospital out-patients, leading to greater costs to health services through unnecessary medical contacts. Its prevalence may be increasing because of excessive internet browsing (cyberchondria). Drug treatment with antidepressants has some efficacy but is not well-liked, but psychological treatments, including cognitive behavior therapy, stress management, mindfulness training, and acceptance and commitment therapy, given either individually, in groups, or over the Internet, have all proved efficacious in both the short and longer term. Untreated health anxiety leads to premature mortality. Health anxiety has become an increasing clinical and public health issue at a time when people are being formally asked to take more responsibility in monitoring their own health. More attention by health services is needed.
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