Do patients with pathological health anxiety fear COVID-19? A time-course analysis of 12 single cases during the "first wave" of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany

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  • Karoline S Sauer
  • Andrea Schmidt
  • Stefanie M Jungmann
  • Josef Bailer
  • Michael Witthoft
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https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=fis-test-1&SrcAuth=WosAPI&KeyUT=WOS:000737304000005&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=WOS_CPL
DOI
10.1016/j.jpsychores.2021.110687
eISSN
1879-1360
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  • Clarivate Analytics Document Solution ID: XY9SG
  • PubMed Identifier: 34875465
ISSN
0022-3999
Zeitschrift
JOURNAL OF PSYCHOSOMATIC RESEARCH
Schlüsselwörter
  • COVID-19
  • Health anxiety
  • Hypochondriasis
  • SARS-CoV-2
  • Virus anxiety
Artikelnummer
ARTN 110687
Datum der Veröffentlichung
2022
Status
Published
Titel
Do patients with pathological health anxiety fear COVID-19? A time-course analysis of 12 single cases during the "first wave" of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany
Sub types
  • Article
Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
152

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Autoren
  • Karoline S Sauer
  • Andrea Schmidt
  • Stefanie M Jungmann
  • Josef Bailer
  • Michael Witthöft
DOI
10.1016/j.jpsychores.2021.110687
ISSN
0022-3999
Zeitschrift
Journal of Psychosomatic Research
Sprache
en
Artikelnummer
110687
Paginierung
110687 - 110687
Datum der Veröffentlichung
2022
Status
Published
Herausgeber
Elsevier BV
Herausgeber URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychores.2021.110687
Datum der Datenerfassung
2022
Titel
Do patients with pathological health anxiety fear COVID-19? A time-course analysis of 12 single cases during the “first wave” of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany
Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
152

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Abstract
<h4>Objective</h4>Pre-existing health anxiety is associated with an intensified affective response to the novel COVID-19 pandemic in the general population. Still, results on the reaction of people with a diagnosis of pathological health anxiety (i.e., hypochondriasis) are scarce.<h4>Methods</h4>In the present study, we investigated the course of (health) anxiety related to SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 in comparison to (health) anxiety related to other severe diseases (e.g., cancer) in a sample of 12 patients with the diagnosis of pathological health anxiety during the "first wave" of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. Both SARS-CoV-2 related anxiety and anxiety related to other severe diseases were assessed weekly over 16 measurement points (30.03.-19.07.2020) and primarily analyzed with fixed effects regression analyses.<h4>Results</h4>Unexpectedly, SARS-CoV-2 related anxiety was on average significantly lower than anxiety related to other severe diseases (d = -0.54, p < .001) and not significantly associated with anxiety related to other severe diseases or pre-COVID-19 health anxiety.<h4>Conclusion</h4>It therefore appears premature to assume that SARS-CoV-2 related anxiety and other health worries are necessarily strongly interrelated and comparably high in people with pathological health anxiety.
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  • Department of Clinical Psychology, Psychotherapy, and Experimental Psychopathology, Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz, Germany. Electronic address: karsauer@uni-mainz.de.
Autoren
  • Karoline S Sauer
  • Andrea Schmidt
  • Stefanie M Jungmann
  • Josef Bailer
  • Michael Witthöft
DOI
10.1016/j.jpsychores.2021.110687
eISSN
1879-1360
Externe Identifier
  • PubMed Identifier: 34875465
  • PubMed Central ID: PMC8632435
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true
ISSN
0022-3999
Zeitschrift
Journal of psychosomatic research
Sprache
eng
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Online publication date
2021
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Open Access
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110687
Datum der Veröffentlichung
2021
Status
Published
Datum der Datenerfassung
2021
Titel
Do patients with pathological health anxiety fear COVID-19? A time-course analysis of 12 single cases during the "first wave" of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany.
Sub types
  • research-article
  • Journal Article
Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
152

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Abstract
OBJECTIVE: Pre-existing health anxiety is associated with an intensified affective response to the novel COVID-19 pandemic in the general population. Still, results on the reaction of people with a diagnosis of pathological health anxiety (i.e., hypochondriasis) are scarce. METHODS: In the present study, we investigated the course of (health) anxiety related to SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 in comparison to (health) anxiety related to other severe diseases (e.g., cancer) in a sample of 12 patients with the diagnosis of pathological health anxiety during the "first wave" of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. Both SARS-CoV-2 related anxiety and anxiety related to other severe diseases were assessed weekly over 16 measurement points (30.03.-19.07.2020) and primarily analyzed with fixed effects regression analyses. RESULTS: Unexpectedly, SARS-CoV-2 related anxiety was on average significantly lower than anxiety related to other severe diseases (d = -0.54, p < .001) and not significantly associated with anxiety related to other severe diseases or pre-COVID-19 health anxiety. CONCLUSION: It therefore appears premature to assume that SARS-CoV-2 related anxiety and other health worries are necessarily strongly interrelated and comparably high in people with pathological health anxiety.
Date of acceptance
2021
Autoren
  • Karoline S Sauer
  • Andrea Schmidt
  • Stefanie M Jungmann
  • Josef Bailer
  • Michael Witthöft
Autoren-URL
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34875465
DOI
10.1016/j.jpsychores.2021.110687
eISSN
1879-1360
Externe Identifier
  • PubMed Central ID: PMC8632435
Zeitschrift
J Psychosom Res
Schlüsselwörter
  • COVID-19
  • Health anxiety
  • Hypochondriasis
  • SARS-CoV-2
  • Virus anxiety
Sprache
eng
Country
England
Paginierung
110687
PII
S0022-3999(21)00332-9
Datum der Veröffentlichung
2021
Status
Published online
Titel
Do patients with pathological health anxiety fear COVID-19? A time-course analysis of 12 single cases during the "first wave" of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany.
Sub types
  • Journal Article
Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
152

Datenquelle: PubMed

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