Personality disorders in hypochondriasis: Prevalence and comparison with two anxiety disorders

Psychosomatics

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 566-574

  Fallon, Brian A ^a,c   Harper, Katy M ^c   Landa, Alla ^a   Pavlicova, Martina ^a   Schneier, Franklin R ^a   Carson, Amanda ^c   Harding, Kelli ^a   Keegan, Kathryn ^b   Schwartz, Theresa ^a   Liebowitz, Michael R ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

^c NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DSM-IV; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOCHONDRIASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PARANOIA; PERSONALITY DISORDER; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL PHOBIA; THOUGHT DISORDER; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CLASSIFICATION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY DISORDERS; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOCHONDRIASIS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PREVALENCE;

EID: 84875807258     PISSN: 00333182     EISSN: 15457206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psym.2012.02.002     Document Type: Article

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