Table 1.
Complete list of keywords by illness type used for the database search.
Fig 1.
From: Moher D, Liberati A, Tetzlaff J, Altman DG, The PRISMA Group (2009). Preferred Reporting Iterns for Systematic Reviews and Meta-/Analyses: The PRISMA Statement. PLoS Med 6(7): e1000097. doi:10.1371/journal.pmedl000097 For more information, visit www.prisma-statement.org.
Table 2.
Description of studies by location, sample size, study design, and chronic illness (k = 401).
Table 3.
List of definitions and their dimensions by chronic illness.
Table 4.
Description of the health anxiety measures that were cited by more than 10 articles.
Fig 2.
The conceptual relationships between HA, the disease/symptom-specific perspective, and the psychiatric perspective of fears of illness/symptoms recurring or worsening in chronic diseases.
Table 5.
Overall studies reporting on prevalence (%) of health anxiety by chronic illness.
Table 6.
Summary of main findings on prevalence, trajectory, and correlates of health anxiety among the four most frequent chronic diseases.