ArticleJournal of obsessive-compulsive and related disorders2021
Intolerance of uncertainty as a factor linking obsessive-compulsive symptoms, health anxiety and concerns about the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in the United States.
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- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder During the COVID-19 Pandemic-A Systematic Review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Pooled it
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder During the COVID-19 Pandemic: a Systematic Review.Current psychiatry reports · 2021Pooled it
- Echoes of ease: Tracing the course of obsessive-compulsive symptoms in the aftermath of a pandemic-Insights from a four-year panel study.The British journal of clinical psychology · 2026Article
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- OCD Compulsions as Aberrant Integration of Uncertainty from Local Goals to Global Goals.Computational psychiatry (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2026Article
- Psychological effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on primary healthcare professionals in Turkey: One year into the pandemic.Journal of clinical nursing · 2025Observational
- Psychometric Evaluation of the Over-Cleanliness Scale (OCS) Amid Covid-19 Pandemic and the Role of Perceived Stress and OCD Proneness on Over-Cleanliness: A Cross-Sectional Study.Health science reports · 2025Article
- Possible Role of Cancer-Related Dysfunctional Beliefs About Sleep and Intolerance of Uncertainty on Cognitive-Behavioral Model of the COVID-Related Hypochondriasis Among Patients With Cancer.Psychiatry investigation · 2025Article
- The Relationship Between Intolerance of Uncertainty and Alcohol Use in First Responders: A Cross-Sectional Study of the Direct, Mediating and Moderating Role of Generalized Resistance Resources.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Intolerance of Uncertainty and Worry Prospectively Predict COVID-19 Anxiety and Distress: A 4-Year Longitudinal Study.Behavior therapy · 2024Article
- Intolerance of Uncertainty, Job Satisfaction and Work Performance in Turkish Healthcare Professionals: Mediating Role of Psychological Capital.International journal of public health · 2024Article
- Too much of a good thing? Hand hygiene and the long-term course of contamination-related obsessive-compulsive symptoms.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Intention to receive the monkeypox vaccine and its psychological and sociodemographic predictors: a cross-sectional survey in the general population of Peru.Psicologia, reflexao e critica : revista semestral do Departamento de Psicologia da UFRGS · 2023Article
- Two Years after the Beginning of COVID-19: Comparing Families Who Had or Did not Have Patients with COVID-19 on Health Beliefs and Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms.Iranian journal of psychiatry · 2023Article
- Severity and Changes in OCD Dimensions during COVID-19: A Two-Year Longitudinal Study.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- COVID-19 related stress and fears of contamination: the impact of feared self-perceptions.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2023Article
- Investigating the correlation between perceived stress and health anxiety with obsessive-compulsive disorder and quality of life during COVID-19 pandemic.BMC psychology · 2023Article
- Pandemic panic? Results of a 14-month longitudinal study on fear of COVID-19.Journal of affective disorders · 2023Article
- Intolerance of uncertainty, anxiety sensitivity, and health anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic: Exploring temporal relationships using cross-lag analysis.Journal of anxiety disorders · 2023Article
- Investigating the Association Between Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Symptom Subtypes and Health Anxiety as Impacted by the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Study.Psychological reports · 2022Article
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Abstract
The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has had a significant impact on public health, economic activity, and mental health as it spread across the globe. Research from past pandemics links excessive anxiety about illness-related threats with symptoms of health anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). In the present study, we investigated whether intolerance of uncertainty (IU), a psychological vulnerability factor involved in both OCD and health anxiety, accounts for a portion of the relationship between these symptoms and fear of COVID-19 during the early stages of the outbreak in the Unites States. We administered measures of concern about the spread of COVID-19 (Coronavirus Threat Scale; CTS), health anxiety, and OCD symptoms to a large sample of community adults in the United States (n = 738) recruited through Amazon MTurk. Results revealed that concern about COVID-19 was moderately and positively correlated with both OCD and health anxiety symptoms, as well as IU. Moreover, regression analyses found that IU partially accounted for the connections between concern about the spread of COVID-19 and OCD and health anxiety symptoms. These results highlight IU as a potential mechanism connecting OCD and health anxiety to anxiety about pandemic threats. Clinical implications, limitations, and future directions for research are discussed.
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