Health Anxiety, Hypochondriasis, and the Anxiety Disorders

Behavior Therapy

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 86-94

  Abramowitz, Jonathan S ^a   Olatunji, Bunmi O ^b   Deacon, Brett J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONVERGENT VALIDITY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH ANXIETY; HUMAN; HYPOCHONDRIASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING TEST; SHORT HEALTH ANXIETY INVENTORY; SYMPTOM; VALIDITY;

ADULT; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDERS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DEMOGRAPHY; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOCHONDRIASIS; MALE; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33846786551     PISSN: 00057894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beth.2006.05.001     Document Type: Article

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