The mediating effect of health anxiety in the relationship between functional somatic symptoms and illness behavior in Chinese inpatients with depression.

Yue-Jiao MaDong-Fang WangMing YuanJiang LongShu-Bao ChenQiu-Xia WuXu-Yi WangTie-Qiao Liu

Published in: BMC psychiatry (2019)

These results highlight that health anxiety may mediate the influence of functional somatic symptoms on illness behavior. The implications of assessing and intervening in health anxiety in patients with depression were discussed.

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