Hypochondriasis - Diagnosis
Research News and Information

Monday, November 23, 2009

Measuring health anxiety: moving past the dichotomous response option of the original Whiteley Index.

7 Jun 2009 The Whiteley Index [WI; Pilowsky, I. (1967). Dimensions of hypochondriasis. British Journal of Psychiatry, 113, 89-93] is a widely used self-report measure of health anxiety, hypochondriasis, and illness phobia; however, the factor structure of the ... Read more...

Is hypochondriasis an anxiety disorder?

30 May 2009 Although hypochondriasis is currently classified as a somatoform disorder, the underlying cognitive processes may be more consistent with an anxiety disorder. This observation has important implications for treatment and subsequent revisions of the ... Read more...

Cognitive-behavioural bibliotherapy for hypochondriasis: a pilot study.

4 May 2009 AIMS: The present study aims to determine whether cognitive-behavioural minimal contact bibliotherapy is acceptable to participants suffering from DSM-IV-TR hypochondriasis, and whether this intervention is able to reduce hypochondriacal complaints, ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Hypochondriasis - Diagnosis'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Measuring health anxiety: moving past the dichotomous response option of the original Whiteley Index. 7 Jun 2009
• Is hypochondriasis an anxiety disorder? 30 May 2009
• Cognitive-behavioural bibliotherapy for hypochondriasis: a pilot study. 4 May 2009
• The outcome of medically unexplained symptoms--will DSM-V improve on DSM-IV somatoform disorders? 29 Apr 2009
• New research on medically unexplained symptoms--much remains to be done before DSM V and ICD-10 can provide a satisfactory new classification. 29 Apr 2009
• Reexamining the domain of hypochondriasis: comparing the Illness Attitudes Scale to other approaches. 9 Mar 2009
• Brain dysfunction behind functional symptoms: neuroimaging and somatoform, conversive, and dissociative disorders. 27 Feb 2009
• Disease phobia in patients with temporomandibular joint pain assessed by the Illness Attitude Scale. 30 Dec 2008
• Medically unexplained symptoms, somatisation disorder and hypochondriasis: course and prognosis. A systematic review. 14 Dec 2008
• [Hypochondriasis and somatisation in elderly] 28 Nov 2008
• Predicting the effect of psychoeducational group treatment for hypochondriasis. 30 Oct 2008
• Decreased NT-3 plasma levels and platelet serotonin content in patients with hypochondriasis. 30 Oct 2008
• [Hypochondriasis between health and psychosis] 30 Aug 2008
• Frequency and severity of the symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome across the anxiety disorders and depression. 25 Aug 2008
• The Illness Attitude Scales. A clinimetric index for assessing hypochondriacal fears and beliefs. 12 Aug 2008
• Doctors, disease and James Joyce. 30 Jul 2008
• A taxometric analysis of health anxiety. 17 May 2008
• Prevalence of exercise dependence and other behavioral addictions among clients of a Parisian fitness room. 18 Mar 2008
• Hypochondria: the worried well. 28 Feb 2008
• Overlap, comorbidity, and stability of somatoform disorders and the use of current versus lifetime criteria. 28 Feb 2008

See a longer list of these articles.

Technical information about 'Hypochondriasis'

Definition: Preoccupation with the fear of having, or the idea that one has, a serious disease based on the person's misinterpretation of bodily symptoms. (APA, DSM-IV)

Descriptor UI: D006998

Alternative terms: Hypochondriasis; Hypochondriacal Neuroses; Neurosis, Hypochondriacal; Hypochondriacal Neurosis;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: F03.875.450;

Online Note: use HYPOCHONDRIASIS to search HYPOCHONDRIACAL NEUROSES 1969-80

History Note: NEUROSIS, HYPOCHONDRIACAL was HYPOCHONDRIACAL NEUROSES see HYPOCHONDRIASIS 1979-80, was HYPOCHONDRIACAL NEUROSES see under HYPOCHONDRIASIS 1969-78