Anxiety disorders and related traits have become increasingly relevant to the study of
physical health and health behaviors over the years. One important health behavior is …

Research on illness perceptions has confirmed that patients' beliefs are associated with
important outcomes in a broadening range of illnesses and risk factor testing. New …

1. Background Chronic pain and depression are each prevalent and often co-occur. 5
Although the underlying mechanism of the interaction between pain and depression is not …

Authors Ed Sarafino and Timothy Smith draw from the research and theory of many
disciplines in order to show how psychology and health affect each other. The 8th Edition of …

The Patient-Centered Clinical Method (PCCM) has been a core tenet of the practice and
teaching of medicine since the first edition of Patient-Centered Medicine-Transforming the …

Conclusions Untreated depression in patients with physical illness causes distress,
amplifies physical symptoms and is more predictive of functional impairment over time than …

Importance Reassurance is a core aspect of daily medical practice, yet little is known on how
it can be achieved. Objective To determine whether patient education in primary care …

Objectives: To review the relevance of cultural models in the generation and amplification of
somatic symptoms and syndromes. Methods: Based on a selective review of literature, we …

Introduction Fear of cancer recurrence (FCR) is the most frequently cited unmet need among
cancer survivors. Theoretical models of FCR suggest that patients with elevated levels of …

BACKGROUND: The risk factors for a high total somatic symptom count are unclear; and it is
not known whether total somatic symptoms count is a predictor of impaired health status …