Table 1.
Description of included studies.
Fig 1.
PRISMA 2020 flow diagram of study selection, adapted from Page et al. [39].
Fig 2.
Forest Plots for the relation of health anxiety and positive (A) as well as negative metacognitive beliefs (B).
Abbreviations: COR = correlation coefficient, CI = confidence interval, *multiplied with ‘-1’ due to an inverse transformation of the PMC scale.
Fig 3.
Forest Plots for the relation of safety-seeking behavior and positive (A) as well as negative metacognitive beliefs (B) in the context of health anxiety.
Abbreviations: COR = correlation coefficient, CI = confidence interval.