How health anxiety influences responses to viral outbreaks like COVID-19: What all decision-makers, health authorities, and health care professionals need to know

By G. Asmundson, Steven Taylor. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 2020

668 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental health

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Citations in the corpus

• Should I Stay or Should I Go? Tourists’ COVID-19 Risk Perception and Vacation Behavior Shift (2021, background): “Pandemic situations cause an increase in general anxiety which can significantly affect rational decisions and impact tourists’ behavior [96].”
• Levels and predictors of anxiety, depression and health anxiety during COVID-19 pandemic in Turkish society: The importance of gender (2020, background): “In contrast, individuals with low health anxiety may be reluctant to comply with warnings regarding bringing the pandemic under control, and may behave in a highly relaxed manner (Asmundson & Taylor, 2020).”
• The COVID-19 pandemic: The ‘black swan’ for mental health care and a turning point for e-health (2020, background): “We also need to consider the role of psychological processes and fear that may cause further harm on top of the pandemic (Asmundson and Taylor, 2020).”
• Development and initial validation of the COVID Stress Scales (2020, neutral): “…indeed, while several measures of COVID-19-related fears and anxieties have recently emerged (e.g., Ahorsu et al., 2020; McKay, Yang, Elhai, & Asmundson, 2020), they tend to be unidimensional (i.e., focused on general fear aspects of COVID-19) and are based on limited psychometric evaluation.”
• Psychosocial impact of COVID-19 (2020, neutral): “This, in turn, may increase their anxiety and distress, influence their behavior and capacity of decision-making, and ultimately imposing unnecessary burden to public health care [92].”