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Systematic Review

Unwanted outcomes in cognitive behavior therapy for pathological health anxiety: a systematic review and a secondary original study of two randomized controlled trials

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Pages 1001-1015 | Received 11 May 2023, Accepted 18 Aug 2023, Published online: 24 Aug 2023

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Figure 1. Flowchart pertaining to the systematic review of randomized controlled trials of cognitive behavior therapy compared to other control conditions for pathological health anxiety. CBT: cognitive behavior therapy; OATD: Open access Theses and Dissertations; RCT: randomized controlled trial.

Figure 1. Flowchart pertaining to the systematic review of randomized controlled trials of cognitive behavior therapy compared to other control conditions for pathological health anxiety. CBT: cognitive behavior therapy; OATD: Open access Theses and Dissertations; RCT: randomized controlled trial.

Table 1. Adverse events and dropout rates reported in randomized controlled trials of cognitive behavior therapy for pathological health anxiety as compared to controls other than cognitive behavior therapy, sorted by year of publication.

Figure 2. Flowchart pertaining to the two randomized controlled trials of cognitive behavior therapy for pathological health anxiety on which the secondary original study was based.

Figure 2. Flowchart pertaining to the two randomized controlled trials of cognitive behavior therapy for pathological health anxiety on which the secondary original study was based.

Table 2. Baseline characteristics in two randomized controlled trials of cognitive behavior therapy for pathological health anxiety.

Table 3. Adverse events in two randomized controlled trials of cognitive behavior therapy for pathological health anxiety.

Table 4. Deterioration and dropouts in two randomized controlled trials of cognitive behavior therapy for pathological health anxiety.

Table 5. Potential predictors of adverse events and dropouts in two randomized controlled trials of cognitive behavior therapy for pathological health anxiety.

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Data availability statement

Data derived from the systematic review are reported in and will be made freely available via the Open Science Framework upon acceptance (https://osf.io/pa89t/). Individual participant data from the secondary original study fall under Swedish and European Union data protection and privacy legislation and can therefore not be share in their entirety. Reasonable requests may be directed to the corresponding author, and will be considered on a case-by-case basis.