Background and Objectives: Current cognitive-behavioral theorists conceptualize
hypochondriasis as excessive health anxiety (HA). Growing evidence suggests that elevated …

Background Pathological health anxiety (PHA)(eg, hypochondriasis and illness anxiety
disorder) is common in medical settings and associated with increased healthcare costs …

The present paper reviewed studies that examined the role of cognitive and perceptual
variables in health anxiety and hypochondriasis that have been published since a 2007 …

Background: An attentional bias to health-threat stimuli is assumed to represent the primary
pathogenetic factor for the development and maintenance of pathological health anxiety …

Background. Empirical evidence indicates that manipulations of attention may facilitate
changes in cognition and stress symptoms in emotional disorder. Methods. The present …

Objective Anxiety disorders contribute substantially to the overall public health burden of
psychopathology. Anxiety sensitivity (AS), a fear of anxiety related sensations, is one of the …

Contemporary conceptualizations of hypochondriasis (HC) as severe health anxiety have
led to the development of cognitive-behavioral approaches to understanding, assessing …

According to cognitive-behavioural theories, attentional biases, especially increased
symptom-focused attention, are crucial for the maintenance of health anxiety. Therefore, the …

It is estimated that individuals with severe health anxiety (HA) utilize 41%–78% more
healthcare resources than individuals with identified medical diagnoses. Thus, identifying …

Abstract Context The Attention Training Technique (ATT, Wells, 1990) is an intervention
guiding individuals to focus, shift, and divide their attention in response to sounds presented …