Relationship between values of the health care and cognitive beliefs about body, illness and treatment: Is there “hypochondriac discourse” in the society?статьяТезисы
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Аннотация:Introduction: Social values of health and health care are considered
as important factors of health behavior as well as sources
of self-regulation in health and illness. However, emphasize on
medicine, health and body that is widespread in mass media nowadays
may increase hypochondriac-like beliefs and behavior as well
as the risk for unexplained somatic symptoms in some individuals.
Objectives: Analysis of mass media revealed four models of health
care value: health as a depletable resource requiring conservation,
health as fragile value requiring protection and control, health as
a necessary source of success and happiness, health as requiring
periodic restoration by alternative medicine.
Aim was to investigate the relationship between these models and
beliefs about body, illness and treatment.
Methods: One hundred and thirteen adults without history of
mental or severe somatic illnesses filled checklist of values of
health care, Cognitive Attitudes about Body And Health Scale (Rief
et al., 1998), Compliance-related Self-Efficacy Scale (Tkhostov and
Rasskazova, 2012).
Results: The models of health as a depletable resource and as
fragile value are dominated in the sample. Agreement with these
models of health care is, on the one hand, related to willingness to
seek medical help and follow treatment, but, on the other hand, to
an excessive attention to bodily sensations, somatosensory amplification,
monitoring and catastrophization about bodily sensations.
Conclusions: Possible pathways linking “hypochondriac discourse”
in the society in its various forms and cognitive beliefs
typical for hypochondria and somatoform disorders will be discussed.
Research supported by Russian Foundation for fundamental
research, project 17-06-00849.
Disclosure of interest: The authors have not supplied their declaration
of competing interest.