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Section 4
Disease Avoidance and Health Anxiety
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Taylor, S., & Asmundson, G., J. G. (2004). Treating Health Anxiety: A Cognitive-Behavioral Approach. New York, NY: The Guilford Press. 60-62.

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Illness Anxiety Disorder

French, J. H., & Hameed, S. (2023). Illness Anxiety Disorder. In StatPearls. StatPearls Publishing.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Article References:
Ditto, B., Byrne, N., Holly, C., & Balegh, S. (2014). Social contagion of vasovagal reactions in the blood collection clinic: A possible example of mass psychogenic illness. Health Psychology, 33(7), 639–645.

Freedland, K. E., Dew, M. A., Sarwer, D. B., Burg, M. M., Hart, T. A., Ewing, S. W. F., Fang, C. Y., Blozis, S. A., Puterman, E., Marquez, B., & Kaufmann, P. G. (2020). Health psychology in the time of COVID-19 [Editorial]. Health Psychology, 39(12), 1021–1025.

Hedman, E., Lekander, M., Karshikoff, B., Ljótsson, B., Axelsson, E., & Axelsson, J. (2016). Health anxiety in a disease-avoidance framework: Investigation of anxiety, disgust and disease perception in response to sickness cues. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 125(7), 868–878.

Rask, C. U., Gehrt, T. B., Rimvall, M. K., & Frostholm, L. (2020). Health anxiety: Conceptualization and future directions. Zeitschrift für Psychologie, 228(2), 141–144. 

Rivera, R. M., & Carballea, D. (2020). Coronavirus: A trigger for OCD and illness anxiety disorder? Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 12(S1), S66.

Trougakos, J. P., Chawla, N., & McCarthy, J. M. (2020). Working in a pandemic: Exploring the impact of COVID-19 health anxiety on work, family, and health outcomes. Journal of Applied Psychology, 105(11), 1234–1245.

QUESTION 4
The research literature, although limited to a small number of reports, suggests that any of us may succumb to MPI under the right conditions. Why is no one immune? To select and enter your answer go to Test.


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