Health anxiety and illness-related fears across diverse chronic illnesses: A systematic review on conceptualization, measurement, prevalence, course, and correlates.

<h4>Background</h4>Patients with chronic diseases commonly report fears of illness or symptoms recurring or worsening. These fears have been addressed from an illness-specific perspective (e.g., fear of cancer recurrence), a generic illness perspective (e.g., fear of progression), and a...

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Main Authors: Sophie Lebel, Brittany Mutsaers, Christina Tomei, Caroline Séguin Leclair, Georden Jones, Danielle Petricone-Westwood, Nicole Rutkowski, Viviane Ta, Geneviève Trudel, Simone Zofia Laflamme, Andrée-Anne Lavigne, Andreas Dinkel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0234124