Investigators studied the occurrence of health anxiety in 161 patients
in a chronic pain clinic [via questionnaire]. Approximately 36.7% had
health anxiety and 51.1% had severe and disabling health anxiety. High
levels of health anxiety may be very common among chronic pain patients.
This finding indicates the potential value of an application of the
cognitive-behavioral health anxiety model to highly health-anxious pain
clinic patients. Rode S, Salkovskis P, Dowd H, Hanna M. Adapted from
J Psychosom Res. 2006 Feb;60(2):155-61.
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