Figure 1.
£ 28 patients both had Health anxiety (severe or mild) and DSM-IV Hypochondriasis. § 41 of the Health anxiety had a well-defined medical condition as reason for encounter. To avoid overlap, they were excluded from the medical condition group. * Responses to questionnaires (Whiteley-7 and SF-36). # DSM-IV Hypochondriasis.
Table 1.
Characteristics of the sample.
Table 2.
Outcome of health anxiety on Whiteley-7 scale (scores 0–100) during two-year follow-up.
Figure 2.
Health anxiety during follow-up according to mixed effect model with a random intercept.
* Corrected for age, gender, comorbid anxiety disorder, or major depression, medical condition and intervention. ** Statistics displayed in Table 3. Health anxiety and DSM-IV Hypochondriasis were tested in two separate statistical models, and the expected values for the medical condition groups were not identical despite including the same individuals. Model 1 is for Health anxiety vs medical condition including 1066 patients with 3393 scores, model 2 is DSM-IV Hypochondriasis vs medical condition including 1024 patients with 3237 scores.
Table 3.
Results from mixed effect models with random intercept.
Table 4.
SF-36 physical and mental component (PCS/MCS) summary scores during two-year follow-up and scores in age and gender matched normal population.
Figure 3.
Mental component summary score during follow-up according to mixed effect model with a random intercept.
* Corrected for age, gender, comorbid anxiety disorder, or major depression, medical condition and intervention. ** Statistics displayed in Table 3. Health anxiety and DSM-IV Hypochondriasis were tested in two separate statistical models, and the expected values for the medical condition groups were not identical despite including the same individuals. Model 1 is for Health anxiety vs medical condition including 984 patients with 3042 scores, model 2 is DSM-IV Hypochondriasis vs medical condition including 944 patients with 2910 scores.
Table 5.
Use of health care per year before and after index consultation in Euro*.