TY - JOUR
T1 - Prediction of psychological reactions to bone density screening for osteoporosis using a cognitive-behavioural model of health anxiety.
AU - Rimes, Katharine
AU - Salkovskis, P M
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - Pre-screening measures derived from a cognitive-behavioral theory of health anxiety were significant predictors of individual differences in post-screening reactions to a health screening procedure, bone densitometry. Predictors included specific illness beliefs (vulnerability, severity/consequences, coping and treatment) and general health anxiety measures. Three months after a low bone mineral density (BMD) result, women with high levels of pre-existing general health anxiety gave higher ratings of anxiety about osteoporosis and perceived likelihood of developing osteoporosis than women with low levels of preexisting health anxiety, even though the two groups' initial ratings had not differed significantly. Women with a low BMD result generally showed "minimization" of the seriousness of low BMD but women with very high levels of pre-existing health anxiety did not. After a high BMD result, highly health anxious women were only temporarily reassured. The results were consistent with the cognitive-behavioral analysis of health anxiety. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
AB - Pre-screening measures derived from a cognitive-behavioral theory of health anxiety were significant predictors of individual differences in post-screening reactions to a health screening procedure, bone densitometry. Predictors included specific illness beliefs (vulnerability, severity/consequences, coping and treatment) and general health anxiety measures. Three months after a low bone mineral density (BMD) result, women with high levels of pre-existing general health anxiety gave higher ratings of anxiety about osteoporosis and perceived likelihood of developing osteoporosis than women with low levels of preexisting health anxiety, even though the two groups' initial ratings had not differed significantly. Women with a low BMD result generally showed "minimization" of the seriousness of low BMD but women with very high levels of pre-existing health anxiety did not. After a high BMD result, highly health anxious women were only temporarily reassured. The results were consistent with the cognitive-behavioral analysis of health anxiety. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
U2 - 10.1016/S0005-7967(01)00015-8
DO - 10.1016/S0005-7967(01)00015-8
M3 - Article
SN - 1873-622X
VL - 40
SP - 359
EP - 381
JO - Behaviour Research and Therapy
JF - Behaviour Research and Therapy
IS - 4
ER -