Emcy Louw, Robert J Mash
Registrars' experience with research in family medicine training programmes in South Africa
South African family practice : official journal of the South African Academy of Family Practice/Primary Care
metacognitive beliefs shown correlate emotional disorders recently implicated health anxiety research exploring beliefs tended use metacognition questionnaire mcq general measure facilitate research metacognitive model applied health anxiety present study reports development initial evaluation new specific metacognitive measure health anxiety metacognitions questionnairehealth anxiety mcqha principal components analysis identified 14 suitable items explored subsequent exploratory factor analysis mcqha identified three factors beliefs thoughts cause illness beliefs biased thinking beliefs thoughts uncontrollable confirmatory factor analysis supported three factor model selected goodnessoffit statistics equivalent better recommended values preliminary evidence suggests good internalconsistency incremental convergent discriminant validity relation associated measures mcqha appears potentially useful predictor health anxiety