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The Short Health Anxiety Inventory: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Alberts, Nicole M., Hadjistavropoulos, Heather D., Jones, Shannon L., Sharpe, Donald·2013·Journal of Anxiety Disorders

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Introduction The Short Health Anxiety Inventory (SHAI) measures health anxiety in medical and non-medical contexts.Objective To review the literature pertaining to the psychometric properties of the SHAI in non-clinical, clinical, and medical samples. Meta-analysis was also conducted to examine the strength of associations between the SHAI and other constructs.Methods Direct search of digital databases for papers that cited the original SHAI publication.Results Seventy-eight papers were identified, with 42 providing relevant information. The SHAI has acceptable Cronbach's alpha scores, strong construct validity, and is sensitive to treatment. Discrepancies have been observed between the findings of factor analytic studies, largely as a result of varying methods used. Overall, there appears to be greatest support for the original two factors, with one factor assessing health anxiety and one factor assessing negative consequences of illness. As expected, individuals with hypochondriasis score higher as compared to non-clinical samples. The strongest association was observed between the SHAI and other measures of health anxiety, followed by measures related to health anxiety vulnerability, and then general anxiety and worry.Conclusions The SHAI is a psychometrically sound tool for assessing health anxiety across samples. Future studies are needed, however, to assess test-retest reliability, incremental validity, and cut-off scores as well as use of the SHAI among diverse samples.

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Authors: Alberts, N. M., Hadjistavropoulos, H. D., Jones, S. L., & Sharpe, D.
Affiliations: University of Regina (CA)
Corresponding author: Hadjistavropoulos, Heather D.
ORCID: Alberts, Nicole M.
Hadjistavropoulos, Heather D.
Jones, Shannon L.
Sharpe, Donald
Venue: Journal of Anxiety Disorders
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Published: 2013-01
Volume: 27
Issue: 1
Pages: 68-78
ISSN: 0887-6185 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2012.10.009
OpenAlex: W1971027823
Cited by: 267
References: 55
Citations by year: 2026: 18 · 2025: 16 · 2024: 21 · 2023: 23 · 2022: 31 · 2021: 35 · 2020: 30 · 2019: 21 · 2018: 9 · 2017: 12 · 2016: 18 · 2015: 15 · 2014: 12 · 2013: 6
FWCI: 1.55
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
www.elsevier.com/legal/tdmrep-license (tdm)
Locations: Journal of Anxiety Disorders (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics: Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Psychometric Methodologies and Testing
Keywords: Short Health Anxiety Inventory, health anxiety, psychometric properties, construct validity, factor structure, general anxiety, worry, medical anxiety, non-clinical sample
MeSH terms: Anxiety, Humans, Hypochondriasis, Psychometrics, Surveys and Questionnaires, Reproducibility of Results

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