How the integration of normal medical test results can be improved in patients with somatoform disorders—An experimental study
| Autor: | Tobias Kube, Jenny Riecke, Jens Heider, Sarah K. Ballou, Julia A. Glombiewski, Winfried Rief, Arthur J. Barsky |
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| Rok vydání: | 2023 |
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| Zdroj: | Health Psychology. 42:103-112 |
| ISSN: | 1930-7810 0278-6133 |
| Popis: | We examined whether the difficulties of patients with somatoform disorders (SFDs) in integrating medical reassurance can be altered by preventing patients from devaluing reassuring information through defensive cognitive strategies.Patients with SFD (As evident on all outcome variables, patients with SFD had more difficulty integrating medical reassurance than depressed and healthy people. Within the SFD sample, participants from the experimental condition blocking the devaluation of medical reassurance rated the likelihood of an undetected serious disease to be significantly lower than the other two conditions. They also reported less emotional concern and a lower desire to seek the opinion of another doctor.By comparing patients with SFD to both a healthy and a clinical control group, the current study suggests that the difficulty in processing reassuring medical information is a specific psychopathological feature of SFD. Furthermore, our results suggest that the integration of medical reassurance can be improved by preventing patients from devaluing reassuring information through dismissive cognitive strategies. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved). |
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