Dysfunctional Beliefs About Symptoms and Illness in Patients with Hypochondriasis

Psychosomatics

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 148-154

  Weck, Florian ^a   Neng, Julia M B ^a   Richtberg, Samantha ^a   Stangier, Ulrich ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BECK ANXIETY INVENTORY; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; BRIEF SYMPTOM INVENTORY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH BELIEF; HUMAN; HYPOCHONDRIASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RATING SCALE; SYMPTOM; SYMPTOM AND OUTCOMES SCALE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMORBIDITY; LEARNING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY DISORDERS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOCHONDRIASIS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SET (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 84863855470     PISSN: 00333182     EISSN: 15457206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psym.2011.11.007     Document Type: Article

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