The Health Anxiety Inventory Short Week Scale is a type of ASSESSMENT TOOL.

The Health Anxiety Inventory Short Week Scale is made up of two parts. It measures anxiety and assesses to what extent PATIENTS:

• experienced particular feelings during the past week
• think they may feel if they had a serious illness.

The result of the Health Anxiety Inventory Short Week Scale identifies both hypochondriacal PATIENTS and people who are very health anxious. A cut off of 18 identifies those fulfilling DSM-IV diagnostic criteria for hypochondriasis. A cut-off score of 15 indicates a mixture of both hypochondriacal PATIENTS and people who are very health anxious but just miss the criteria for the clinical diagnosis.

This supporting information is also known by these names:

Context	Alias
plural	Health Anxiety Inventory Short Week Scales