Dimensional assessment of hypochondriacal fears and beliefs

Current Psychiatry Reviews

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 50-57

  Sirri, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cognitions About Body and Health Questionnaire; Health Anxiety Inventory; Health Anxiety Questionnaire; Hypochondriasis Yale Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale; Illness Attitude Scales; Multidimensional Inventory of Hypochondriacal Traits; Reassurance Questionnaire; Somatosensory Amplification Scale; Whiteley Index

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; COGNITION; COGNITIONS ABOUT BODY AND HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE; CONTENT VALIDITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEAR; HEALTH ANXIETY INVENTORY; HEALTH ANXIETY QUESTIONNAIRE; HEALTH BELIEF; HUMAN; HYPOCHONDRIASIS; ILLNESS ATTITUDE SCALES; MULTIDIMENSIONAL INVENTORY OF HYPOCHONDRIACAL TRAITS; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REASSURANCE; REASSURANCE QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOMATOSENSORY AMPLIFICATION SCALE; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT; WHITELEY INDEX; YALE BROWN OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE SCALE;

EID: 84893486204     PISSN: 15734005     EISSN: 18756441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1573400509666131119005346     Document Type: Review

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