ALLMedicine™ Hypochondriasis Center

Apr 14th, 2022 - Using a cluster sampling method, 248 nurses from frontline departments of three large general hospitals in Sichuan Province, China, were selected as participants in the current study. Risk perception and coping methods during the coronavirus disea...

Dec 8th, 2021 - Pre-existing health anxiety is associated with an intensified affective response to the novel COVID-19 pandemic in the general population. Still, results on the reaction of people with a diagnosis of pathological health anxiety (i.e., hypochondria...

Dec 8th, 2021 - In the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Edition (ICD-10), hypochondriasis (illness anxiety disorder) and dysmorphophobia (body dysmorphic disorder) share the same diagnostic code (F45.2). However, the Swedish ICD-10 allows for these...

Nov 19th, 2021 - Following acute gastroenteritis (AGE) due to bacteria, viruses, or protozoa, a subset of patients develop new onset Rome criteria positive irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), called postinfection IBS (PI-IBS). The pooled prevalence of PI-IBS following...

Jul 30th, 2021 - Plaque psoriasis has been associated with anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation and various personality traits. However, studies on hypochondriasis, i.e. the belief of serious illness despite having no or only mild symptoms, are currently scarce....

Apr 30th, 2021 - Severe health anxiety (illness anxiety disorder) or hypochondriasis, according to the psychiatric classification system ICD-10, is characterized by preoccupation with fear of having a serious illness, which interferes with daily functions and pers...

Mar 4th, 2020 - BACKGROUND Classification and comorbidity Hypochondriasis is broadly defined in the international classification systems for mental disorders ICD-10 (WHO) and DSM-IV (APA) under somatoform disorders as a preoccupation with fears and the belief of ...

Apr 25th, 2017 - Hypochondriasis is one of the most difficult psychiatric disorders to treat. People with hypochondriasis believe that real or imagined physical symptoms are signs of serious illnesses, despite medical reassurance and other evidence to the contrary...

Feb 7th, 2017 - Hypochondriasis or severe health anxiety is characterised by excessive, disproportionate and persistent thoughts, behaviour and emotion focused on physical symptoms and/or fear of developing a serious illness. There is often excessive worry about ...

Aug 11th, 2016 - Background: The central feature of hypochondriasis is preoccupation or fear of having a serious disease based on misinterpretation of bodily signs. Psychotherapeutic treatments have developed with focus on different aspects of the condition. Sever...

Jul 6th, 2021 - Hypochondria has been useful to my patients. I mean my own hypochondria.

Mar 31st, 2020 - Up to 20% of patients in medical settings experience health anxiety. 1,2 In DSM-IV-TR, this condition was called hypochondriasis, and its core feature was having a preoccupation with fears or the idea that one has a serious disease based on a misin.

Mar 31st, 2020 - Up to 20% of patients in medical settings experience health anxiety. 1,2 In DSM-IV-TR, this condition was called hypochondriasis, and its core feature was having a preoccupation with fears or the idea that one has a serious disease based on a misin.

Sep 3rd, 2019 - Is it hypochondriasis or "illness anxiety disorder"? Most physicians have some experience with attempting to care for people who are seemingly never satisfied that their health is sound. These patients can be draining to treat because they tend to...

Sep 3rd, 2019 - Is it hypochondriasis or "illness anxiety disorder"? Most physicians have some experience with attempting to care for people who are seemingly never satisfied that their health is sound. These patients can be draining to treat because they tend to...