Health Anxiety in Dermatology

by Valencia Long and David Elpern
Int J Dermatol. 2017 Sep;56(9):968-971. doi: 10.1111/ijd.13692

Patients see doctors with varying degrees of concern regardin their health. While some require tests or treatments, a subset has severe health anxiety and cannot be reassured by tests, procedures, or pharmaceuticals but may be helped, at least temporarily, by a sympathetic listening face and reassurance. Hence, we designed a questionnaire to investigate health anxiety in patients recruited from a general dermatology clinic.

The study can be accessed at this pdf: Health Anxiety in Dermatology