Who needs to know?
Providers and users of unscheduled/urgent care services and people with health anxiety or medically unexplained symptoms (MUS).
What we have found
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There is good evidence of the clinical and cost effectiveness of brief Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for health anxiety from randomised controlled trials carried out in various settings.
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One study found that providing CBT to people with health anxiety showed reductions in health anxiety, which was maintained for at least 2 years.
