Contents of It's not All in Your Head by Asmundson and Taylor

considered to have elevated health anxiety. The WI has good internal consistency (r =
.85; Speckens, 2001). This measure was used for screening individuals for participation
in the study.
The Health Anxiety Interview (HAI; Taylor & Asmundson, 2004) is a 30-minute
interview that provided an assessment for health anxiety, hypochondriasis, disease
phobia, delusional disorder (somatic type), and details about the development of
symptoms. The HAI provided a more detailed assessment of health anxiety disorders than
the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV (SCID-IV; First, Spitzer, Gibbon Miriam,
& Williams (2002). Psychometric properties of the HAI are unknown. In addition, the
following questions recommended by Taylor and Asmundson were added in order to
fully understand the history and development of symptoms:
� Is there anything that you avoid in order to protect your health?
� When you feel anxious about your health, what do you do?
� Follow-up questions:
� Do you seek reassurance from others?
� Do you check your body for signs of illness, such as by checking your pulse?
� Do you check medical texts or the Internet for information about health and
disease?
� Do you carry anything with you in order to feel safe about your health?
� Follow-up questions:
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