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How Health Anxiety Influences Responses to Viral Outbreaks like COVID-19: What All Decision-Makers, Health Authorities, and Health-Care Professionals Need to Know
TAGS: pandemics, journal of anxiety disorders ·Authored By: Asmundson, G. J. G. & Taylor, S.
Health anxiety occurs when someone interprets sensations or changes occurring in their body as a symptom of being ill. Health anxiety is experienced along a continuum ranging from low to high. People with high levels of health anxiety are generally convinced that they are ill and attempt to ease this fear...
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Coronaphobia: Fear and the 2019-nCoV outbreak
TAGS: pandemics, journal of anxiety disorders ·Authored By: Asmundson, G. J. G. & Taylor, S.
As the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, 2019-nCOV, spreads across the world, so does the fear of contracting the virus⎯perhaps at an even faster rate.
The term “coronaphobia” illustrates the unhelpful ways that some people across the world have been responding to their fear of the coronavirus. These responses can feature...