Somatic Symptoms and Illness Worries in Primary Care - A Study of 1751 General Practice AttendersSummary. Patients with illness worry cause high costs for the health care system. Because no organic illness can be diagnosed in half of the cases, the ...
Zentrales Merkmal bei der hypochondrischen Störung ist die Befürchtung, an einer schweren Erkrankung zu leiden. Dies führt zur Fehlinterpretation normaler Körperfunktionen. Neben dysfunktionalen Angstzuständen ist auch stark ausgeprägte Angstsensitivität ...
Relationship between both disgust propensity and disgust sensitivity and hypochondriacal featuresBackground: There is evidence that disgust propensity (tendency to experience disgust) and disgust sensitivity (tendency to perceive disgust experiences as ...
Electronic diaries enhance the effect of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for health anxiety: A randomized controlled studySelective attention allocation towards bodily sensations and a catastrophic symptom attribution bias are central components of ...
Zusammenfassung. Der Whiteley-Index ist ein Instrument zur Erfassung von Hypochondrie. Für diesen Fragebogen wurde eine Normierungs- und Validierungsstudie anhand einer bevölkerungsrepräsentativen Stichprobe (n = 1996) durchgeführt. Hypochondrie zeigt ...
German validation of the Multidimensional Inventory of Hypochondriacal Traits (MIHT)Abstract. The Multidimensional Inventory of Hypochondriacal Traits (MIHT; Longley, Watson, & Noyes, 2005) is a self-report instrument for the dimensional assessment of ...
Effect of hypochondriasis tendency on health behavior and selective memory biases in patients with non-cardiac chest painAbstract.Background: The cognitive-behavioral model of health anxiety and hypochondriasis emphasizes the importance of selective ...
Critical testing of the factoral structure and construct validity of the Whiteley-Index - an established screening instrument to assess hypochondriasisAbstract.Background: The Whiteley-Index (WI) is a well established screening for hypochondriasis. ...
Are past experiences of illnesses a specific risk factor for health anxiety?Abstract.Background: Cognitive models of hypochondriasis and health anxiety consider past experiences of illnesses to be risk factors for their development. Some empirical ...
Hypochondriacal characteristics in psychotherapeutic outpatients. Prevalence and predisposing factorsAbstract.Background: While hypochondriasis has a relatively low prevalence, there are indications that hypochondriacal characteristics below the ...
Theoretischer Hintergrund: Sicherheitsverhalten wird für die Aufrechterhaltung von hypochondrischen Ängsten ein wichtiger Stellenwert beigemessen. Fragestellung: In der vorliegenden Untersuchung soll die Güte eines Fragebogens zur Erfassung von ...
Abstract. The construct of anxiety sensitivity (AS) – the fear of anxiety-related symptoms – has been highly influential in current conceptualizations of anxiety disorders in general, and panic disorder specifically. However, given ...
There are few studies suggesting that chronotype or morningness-eveningness (M/E) is a predictor of depressive symptoms. A sample of 277 women (university students) of a mean age of 22.25 years ± (SD) 2.47 participated in this study. We used the Composite ...
Abstract. This study examined the effectiveness of psychological interventions for severe health anxiety (SHA) regarding somatic symptoms (SS) and health anxiety (HA). The databases Web of Science, EBSCO, and CENTRAL were searched on May ...
Abstract. Health anxiety, characterized by excessive concern about one’s health, is a serious and costly public health problem. The disorder might become chronic if left untreated. Unfortunately many patients do not receive timely or ...