Meanings of health anxiety in inglês

Results: Both groups reported increased health anxiety and somatic sensitivity after 12 weeks.

Conclusions: The symbolic play paradigm provided discriminating insights into health anxiety in children.

Eighty-four families completed play and questionnaire assessments of health anxiety and psychological functioning.

The COVID-19 pandemic is likely to increase risk for the development of health anxiety.

Having half the population in this heightened state of health anxiety is not good for society.

The findings suggest that childhood RAP may be associated with higher levels of parental health anxiety.

The current study investigates threat related attentional bias in participants with varying degrees of health anxiety.

However, nonattendees reported more health anxiety on follow-up.

Results suggest a vigilance avoidance pattern of selective attention associated with pictorial illness related stimuli in health anxiety.

Objectives: To explore health anxiety in children with recurrent abdominal pain (RAP) using a symbolic play assessment.

Experts say health anxiety is a significant drain on health services and leads to unnecessary, invasive and expensive medical tests.

Main outcome measures evaluated health anxiety, somatic sensitivity, reassurance by a physician, psychopathology, post-traumatic stress symptoms, fatigue and quality of life.

Mothers of children with RAP had higher levels of health anxiety, and rated their children as having more physical symptoms and anxiety.

Substantial positive correlations of health anxiety, anxiety sensitivity, and absorption with difficulties to disengage from threat were detected at 500ms exposure time.

Cognitive-behavioral models of health anxiety stress the importance of selective attention not only towards internal but also towards external health threat related stimuli.

Time 1 intolerance of uncertainty was uniquely associated with the Time 2 health anxiety dimension of body vigilance.