The World Health Organization (WHO) is currently revisiting the ICD. In the 10th version of the ICD, approved in 1990, hypochondriacal symptoms are described in the context of both the primary condition hypochondriacal disorder and as secondary symptoms within a range of other mental disorders. Expansion of the research base since 1990 makes a critical evaluation and revision of both the defini...

OBJECTIVE To investigate how hypochondriacal attitudes and beliefs, attitudes towards complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and modern health worries (MHWs) related to patient satisfaction with their general practitioner. DESIGN Participants completed a five-part questionnaire anonymously which measured satisfaction with one's doctor, hypochondriacal beliefs, attitudes to CAM, MHWs and...

BACKGROUND Clinician-administered interviews are essential for assessing the efficacy of treatment studies and constitute an important instrument for clinical practice. Recently, the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale was adapted for the dimensional assessment of hypochondriacal characteristics (H-YBOCS) and yielded promising results. PURPOSE This study aimed to develop and validate a Germ...

BACKGROUND The present maintenance study investigated whether the reduction in hypochondriacal complaints after initial treatment with CBT or paroxetine sustained during a follow-up period and whether psychiatric severity at pretest predicted the course of hypochondriacal symptoms. METHOD A naturalistic follow-up period of 18 months after a 16-week RCT consisting of 33 patients initially allo...

OBJECTIVES It is often reported by medical practitioners that medical students develop hypochondriacal concerns and symptoms relating to diseases they are studying, a phenomenon labelled 'medical student syndrome'. However, the evidence that this syndrome exists and particularly that it contributes to an increased number of consultations (as typical hypochondriasis does) is weak. The present st...

A,LDDISON'S DISEASE has been generally considered in the literature from the point of view of pathophysiology of the adrenal gland, and the various symptomatic manifestations of the disease have been interpreted usually as direct reflections of the adrenocortical defect. Nearly all clinical descriptions of the disease, however, mention the so-called "nervous and mental" concomitants, which repr...