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Acceptance and commitment group therapy for health anxiety – Results from a pilot study
- Source :
- Journal of Anxiety Disorders. 27:461-468
- Publication Year :
- 2013
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2013.
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Abstract
- Health anxiety (or hypochondriasis) is prevalent, may be persistent and disabling for the sufferers and associated with high societal costs. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a new third-wave behavioral cognitive therapy that has not yet been tested in health anxiety. 34 consecutive Danish patients with severe health anxiety were referred from general practitioners or hospital departments and received a ten-session ACT group therapy. Patients were followed up by questionnaires for 6 months. There were significant reductions in health anxiety, somatic symptoms and emotional distress at 6 months compared to baseline: a 49% reduction in health anxiety (Whiteley-7 Index), a 47% decrease in emotional distress (SCL-8), and a 40% decrease in somatic symptoms (SCL-90R Somatization Subscale). The patients' emotional representations and perception of the consequences of their illness (IPQ) improved significantly, and 87% of the patients were very or extremely satisfied with the treatment.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Denmark
medicine.medical_treatment
Pilot Projects
Acceptance and commitment therapy
Illness perceptions
Group psychotherapy
Danish
Emotional distress
Surveys and Questionnaires
medicine
Humans
Psychiatry
Analysis of Variance
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
language.human_language
Hypochondriasis
Psychiatry and Mental health
Clinical Psychology
Psychotherapy, Group
Cognitive therapy
language
Anxiety
Female
medicine.symptom
Psychology
Somatization
Clinical psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 08876185
- Volume :
- 27
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Anxiety Disorders
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....b1f5a7ab29618a07bc82f3f81d0cba62