ReviewBehavioural and cognitive psychotherapy2021
Practitioner review: health anxiety in children and young people in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- Relationship Between Adolescent Health Anxiety and Health-Related Internet Use: 3-Wave Longitudinal Survey Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- Climate Anxiety in Perspective: A Look at Dominant Stressors in Youth Mental Health and Sleep.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2025Article
- Psychosocial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children with chronic health conditions in Germany: a qualitative interview study.BMJ open · 2025Article
- Psychometric properties of the Arabic spence children's anxiety scale parent in a sample of Arabic speaking adults.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Illness Anxiety Disorder: A Review of the Current Research and Future Directions.Current psychiatry reports · 2024Review
- Parental and Adolescents' Anxiety during the COVID-19 Outbreak in Rural China: The role of Parent-child Communication.Journal of child & adolescent trauma · 2024Article
- Scoping review: longitudinal effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on child and adolescent mental health.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2024Article
- Subjective health and psychosomatic complaints of children and adolescents in Germany: Results of the HBSC study 2009/10 - 2022.Journal of health monitoring · 2024Article
- The relationship between maladaptive health beliefs, pandemic-related stress, and health anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic.Health psychology report · 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
- Health anxiety during a global pandemic: a comparison of medical and non-medical students in Mashhad, Iran.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Psychological distress and academic success: a two-year study comparing the outcome of two online interventions at a university counseling and consultation service in Italy.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- An international comparison of gender differences in mental health among higher-education students during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic: a multilevel design.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2023Article
- Changes in mental health in the German child and adolescent population during the COVID-19 pandemic - Results of a rapid review.Journal of health monitoring · 2023Article
- COVID-19 symptoms, internet information seeking, and stigma influence post-lockdown health anxiety.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- A Scoping Review of the Psychological and Emotional Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Children and Young People.Illness, crises, and loss · 2023Article
- Developing an Anxiety Screening Tool for Children in South Africa: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study.JMIR research protocols · 2022Article
- Growing up during a public health crisis: a qualitative study of Born in Bradford early adolescents during Covid-19.BMC psychology · 2022Article
- Measuring child coping in times of societal crises: Pilot development, reliability, as well as mental health and meaning mindset convergent validity of the children's crisis coping scale (3Cs).Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Health-related fear is a normal and common response in the face of the global pandemic of COVID-19. Children and young people are frequently being exposed to messages about the threat to health, including from the media and authorities. Whilst for most, their anxiety will be proportionate to the threat, for some, existing pre-occupation with physical symptoms and illness will become more problematic. There is a growing body of evidence that health anxiety may occur in childhood, however much of the literature is taken from research using adult samples. This practitioner review aims to give an overview of the assessment and treatment of health-related worries in children and young people in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. This review is based on the limited existing evidence in this population and the more substantial evidence base for treating health anxiety in adults. We consider the adaptations needed to ensure such interventions are developmentally appropriate.
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