Responsiveness of Hypochondriacal Patients with Chronic Low-Back Pain to Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy

Psychosomatics

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 139-147

  Nakao, Mutsuhiro ^a,b   Shinozaki, Yasuko ^b,c   Nolido, Nyryan ^c   Ahern, David K ^c   Barsky, Arthur J ^c  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b TEIKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEALTH ANXIETY INVENTORY; HUMAN; HYPOCHONDRIASIS; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARANOIA; PHOBIA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SOMATIZATION; WHITELEY INDEX; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; HOSPITALIZATION; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; SELF REPORT; STATISTICS;

ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOCHONDRIASIS; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SELF REPORT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84863846766     PISSN: 00333182     EISSN: 15457206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psym.2011.09.006     Document Type: Article

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