Integrated Treatment Program for Hypochondriasis in Primary Care Settings

The control treatment is relaxation training or attention control. This will be taught in three, 1-hour sessions with a trained therapist.

Patients will receive five sessions of psychoeducational counseling from the nurse who works with the primary care physicians. Patients who are interested in continuing treatment or who have not responded to this first treatment step will then be referred for the second step, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), for more intensive treatment.