ReviewClinical medicine (London, England)2020
Why health anxiety needs to be recognised in hospital practice.
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- Intersectional inequalities in health anxiety: multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy in the SOMA.SOC study.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Relationships among COVID-19 phobia, health anxiety, and social relations in women living with HIV in Iran: A path analysis.PloS one · 2022Article
- Health Anxiety Predicts the Perceived Dangerousness of COVID-19 over and above Intrusive Illness-Related Thoughts, Contamination Symptoms, and State and Trait Negative Affect.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Initial assessment of patients with putative functional disorders in medical settings.Clinical medicine (London, England) · 2021Article
- Identifying and managing functional cardiac symptoms.Clinical medicine (London, England) · 2021Article
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Abstract
Health anxiety, formerly part of hypochondriasis, but now reformulated as excessive concern about health and, by extension, illness, comprises a large proportion of consultations in hospital practice. For too long it has been ignored in practice and not formally treated. This belief is no longer tenable, and in the last few years a number of easily administered psychological treatments have shown consistent benefit that help patients, practitioners and planners of services. A stepped care approach in which physicians and nurses are first helped to identify health anxiety, explain its significance to patients and then, if necessary, administer these treatments in the clinical setting without referral to psychiatric services, is recommended as a way forward. This approach should be embraced in secondary care.
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