Do metacognitions contribute to pathological health anxiety? A systematic review and meta-analysis

• Lavinia Ivan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

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• Petra Foerster,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

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• Frederic Maas genannt Bermpohl,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2370-4946

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• Alexander L. Gerlach,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6794-5349

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• Anna Pohl

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: anna.pohl@uni-koeln.de

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3761-5768

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