The Short Health Anxiety Inventory: A systematic review and meta-analysis

NM Alberts, HD Hadjistavropoulos, SL Jones… - Journal of anxiety …, 2013 - Elsevier
INTRODUCTION: The Short Health Anxiety Inventory (SHAI) measures health anxiety in
medical and non-medical contexts. OBJECTIVE: To review the literature pertaining to the …

How to use the new DSM-5 somatic symptom disorder diagnosis in research and practice: a critical evaluation and a proposal for modifications

W Rief, A Martin - Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 2014 - annualreviews.org
The fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5)
changed the term “somatoform disorders” to “somatic symptom and related disorders” and …

Coping and tolerance of uncertainty: Predictors and mediators of mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic.

H Rettie, J Daniels - American Psychologist, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
The current pandemic wave of COVID-19 has resulted in significant uncertainty for the
general public. Mental health and examining factors that may influence distress have been …

Acute mental health responses during the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia

JM Newby, K O'Moore, S Tang, H Christensen… - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
The acute and long-term mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic are unknown.
The current study examined the acute mental health responses to the COVID-19 pandemic …

Cyberchondria: parsing health anxiety from online behavior

ER Doherty-Torstrick, KE Walton, BA Fallon - Psychosomatics, 2016 - Elsevier
Background Individuals with questions about their health often turn to the Internet for
information about their symptoms, but the degree to which health anxiety is related to online …

Effect of internet vs face-to-face cognitive behavior therapy for health anxiety: a randomized noninferiority clinical trial

E Axelsson, E Andersson, B Ljótsson… - JAMA …, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Health anxiety is a common and often chronic mental health problem associated
with distress, substantial costs, and frequent attendance throughout the health care system …

All-cause and cause-specific mortality among individuals with hypochondriasis

D Mataix-Cols, K Isomura, A Sidorchuk… - JAMA …, 2024 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Hypochondriasis, also known as health anxiety disorder, is a prevalent, yet
underdiagnosed psychiatric disorder characterized by persistent preoccupation about …

Illness anxiety disorder: psychopathology, epidemiology, clinical characteristics, and treatment

TM Scarella, RJ Boland, AJ Barsky - Psychosomatic medicine, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Illness anxiety disorder is a primary disorder of anxiety about having or developing a serious
illness. The core feature is the cycle of worry and reassurance seeking regarding health, as …

Exposure-based cognitive–behavioural therapy via the internet and as bibliotherapy for somatic symptom disorder and illness anxiety disorder: randomised controlled …

E Hedman, E Axelsson, E Andersson… - The British journal of …, 2016 - cambridge.org
BackgroundIn DSM-5 two new diagnoses, somatic symptom disorder (SSD) and illness
anxiety disorder (IAD), have replaced DSM-IV hypochondriasis. There are no previous …

Increase in the prevalence of health anxiety in medical clinics: possible cyberchondria

P Tyrer, S Cooper, H Tyrer, D Wang… - … Journal of Social …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Health anxiety may be an increasing problem because of the focus on
monitoring health and increasing use of the Internet for self-diagnosis (cyberchondria) …