Treating Health Anxiety and Fear of Death: A Practitioner's Guide

The Cognitive-Behavioral Perspective

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Death anxiety and its role in psychopathology: Reviewing the status of a transdiagnostic construct

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Death anxiety in the time of COVID-19: theoretical explanations and clinical implications

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Internet-based cognitive-behavioural therapy for severe health anxiety: randomised controlled trial

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Death Anxiety: A Cognitive-Behavioral Approach

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The effects of psychosocial interventions on death anxiety: A meta-analysis and systematic review of randomised controlled trials

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Exposure-based cognitive–behavioural therapy via the internet and as bibliotherapy for somatic symptom disorder and illness anxiety disorder: randomised controlled trial

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Internet-delivered exposure-based cognitive–behavioural therapy and behavioural stress management for severe health anxiety: randomised controlled trial

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Cost-effectiveness and long-term effectiveness of Internet-based cognitive behaviour therapy for severe health anxiety

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Is health anxiety a significant problem for individuals with multiple sclerosis?

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Factors Associated with Anxiety About Colonoscopy: The Preparation, the Procedure, and the Anticipated Findings

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Development and Initial Validation of the Medical Fear Survey–Short Version

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The Effect of Health and Penal Harm on Aging Female Prisoners' Views of Dying in Prison

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Effectiveness and Cost Offset Analysis of Group CBT for Hypochondriasis Delivered in a Psychiatric Setting: An Open Trial

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Personality Change following Internet-Based Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Severe Health Anxiety

Hedman‐Lagerlöf, E., Andersson, G., Lindefors, N., Gustavsson, P. J., Lekander, M., Rück, C., Andersson, E., & Ljótsson, B. (2014) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0113871 · Cited by 45 · see citing works

Mediators in Internet-Based Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Severe Health Anxiety

Hedman, E., Andersson, E., Andersson, G., Lindefors, N., Lekander, M., Rück, C., & Ljótsson, B. (2013) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0077752 · Cited by 43 · see citing works

Terror mismanagement: evidence that mortality salience exacerbates attentional bias in social anxiety

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Sudden gains in internet-based cognitive behaviour therapy for severe health anxiety

Hedman, E., Lekander, M., Ljótsson, B., Lindefors, N., Rück, C., Hofmann, S. G., Andersson, E., Andersson, G., & Schulz, S. M. (2014) · Behaviour Research and Therapy · doi:10.1016/j.brat.2013.12.007 · Cited by 32 · see citing works

Older Prisoners’ Experiences of Death, Dying and Grief Behind Bars

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Young People’s Experiences of Death Anxiety and Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic

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Association of sense of coherence and supernatural beliefs with death anxiety and death depression among Romanian cancer patients

Postolică, R., Enea, V., Dafinoiu, I., Petrov, I., & Azoicăi, D. (2018) · Death Studies · doi:10.1080/07481187.2018.1430083 · Cited by 17 · see citing works

Entwicklung und Validierung eines Fragebogens zur Erfassung von hypochondrischem Sicherheitsverhalten

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A systematic review of the relationship between death anxiety, capability for suicide, and suicidality

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Training older adults about Alzheimer’s disease – Impact on knowledge and fear

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Overcome Death Anxiety: The Development of an Online Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Programme for Fears of Death

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Optimizing Exposure Therapy for Pathological Health Anxiety: Considerations From the Inhibitory Learning Approach

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Starving off death: Mortality salience impacts women’s body image and disordered eating

Forrester, M., Sharpe, L., & Menzies, R. E. (2024) · Death Studies · doi:10.1080/07481187.2024.2352732 · Cited by 13 · see citing works

Death Anxiety and Associated Factors in the Hospitalized and Non-hospitalized Elderly with Chronic Diseases in Ahvaz

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Variants of Exposure in Body Dysmorphic Disorder and Hypochondriasis

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Death Anxiety in Caregivers of Chronic Patients

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Exploring the impacts of a coffin-lying experience on life and death attitudes of medical and nursing students: preliminary findings

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Anxiety Disorders in Children with Chronic Health Problems

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Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Childhood Illness Attitude Scales

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Anxiety Disorders in Evolutionary Perspective

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Development and psychometric properties of the Health Anxiety Behavior Inventory (HABI)

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Creative Approaches to Treating the Dread of Death

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Optimierung von Expositionstherapie bei pathologischen Krankheitsängsten

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Illness anxiety predicts higher mental strain and vaccine willingness—A nine‐wave longitudinal study during the first 1.5 years of the COVID‐19 pandemic in Germany

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Feasibility Study of Group Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Severe Health Anxiety

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Joint factor analysis and approximate equipercentile linking of common trait health anxiety measures: a cross-sectional study of the 14-, 18- and 64-item health anxiety inventory, the illness attitude scale, and the 14-item Whiteley Index

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The Role of Death-Anxiety-Induced Fear of COVID-19 in Compliance With and Acceptance of Government-Issued COVID-19 Regulations

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Fears of Death and Their Relationship to Mental Health

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Structural Equation Model of Medical Seeking Delay in Elderly Breast Cancer Patients: The Mediating Role of Coping Mechanisms Between Health Literacy and Timeliness of Treatment

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Using Philosophy to Help Manage the fear of Death

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Worry and Other Mental Health Problems

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Hypochondriasis

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Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders

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Factors Affecting the Fear of Covid-19

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The Relationship between Health Anxiety and Quality of Life in Adolescents During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Why medically unexplained symptoms and health anxiety don't need to make your heart sink

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Medical Stress and Fear of Death and Dying in a Medical Patient Population

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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Anxiety Disorders

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Kognitiv-behaviorale Therapieansätze und ihre Wirksamkeit

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Mögliche Komplikationen und häufige Fragen

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A mobile application to reduce death anxiety during the covid-19 pandemic: design of a high-fidelity prototypePreprint

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Illness Anxiety Disorder/Hypochondriasis

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Hypochondrie und Gesundheitssorgen

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ICBT for Severe Health Anxiety

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Canadian Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry/Psychosomatic Medicine: A Discipline Still Waiting for Official Recognition and Patient Care Accessibility

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CBT for Somatic Symptom Disorder and Illness Anxiety Disorder

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Hypochondriasis

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The Mediating Role of Death Anxiety in the Effect of Covid-19 Fear on Online Shopping Attitude and Purchase Intention

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Crafting a High-Fidelity Mobile Application to Mitigate Death Anxiety Amidst the COVID-19 PandemicPreprint

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A Mobile Application to Reduce Death Anxiety During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Design of a High-fidelity Prototype

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A clinician’s quick guide to evidence-based approaches: health anxiety

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Additional file 2 of Joint factor analysis and approximate equipercentile linking of common trait health anxiety measures: a cross-sectional study of the 14-, 18- and 64-item health anxiety inventory, the illness attitude scale, and the 14-item Whiteley Index

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Additional file 3 of Joint factor analysis and approximate equipercentile linking of common trait health anxiety measures: a cross-sectional study of the 14-, 18- and 64-item health anxiety inventory, the illness attitude scale, and the 14-item Whiteley Index

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Additional file 1 of Joint factor analysis and approximate equipercentile linking of common trait health anxiety measures: a cross-sectional study of the 14-, 18- and 64-item health anxiety inventory, the illness attitude scale, and the 14-item Whiteley Index

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Mindfulness dan Health Anxiety pada Individu Dewasa Awal

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Driven toward care, avoiding the end: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the relationship between death anxiety and healthcare utilisation

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Health Anxiety in Illness and Aging

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Health Anxiety

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Doing Better, Feeling Scared: Health Statistics and the Culture of Fear

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Fear of Illness and Death

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Understanding and treating health anxiety incorporating cultural diversity

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