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June 14, 2026Eastern Journal of PsychiatryOpen Access

Health Anxiety and Its Multidimensional Psychological Correlates Among Medical Students: A Cross-Sectional Study

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VKVivek KumarPatna Medical College and HospitalHSHarshavardhan SampathAll India Institute of Medical Sciences RaipurSDS. K. DuttaSikkim Manipal University

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Cross-sectional study reports prevalence of health anxiety in medical students and highlights key psychological factors.

Key Points

  • This study aims to examine the prevalence and psychosocial factors associated with health anxiety among undergraduate medical students.
  • Cross-sectional study conducted among undergraduate medical students in Northeast India with a response rate of 83.2%.
  • Health anxiety, depression, trait anxiety, resilience, and cyberchondria assessed using validated self-report scales.
  • Bivariate and multiple linear regression analyses performed with health anxiety scores as the dependent variable.
  • 44 out of 296 students (14.9%) screened positive for clinically significant health anxiety.
  • Higher cyberchondria (B = 0.259, p < 0.001) and trait anxiety (B = 0.336, p = 0.001) were independently associated with higher health anxiety scores.
  • Lower resilience (B = -1.659, p = 0.001) was also independently correlated with greater health anxiety severity.

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Kumar et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a2e482cb1cc60ccdea8c74ahttps://doi.org/10.5005/jp-journals-11001-0121
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