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Schaefer, Manuela, Egloff, Boris ORCID: 0000-0002-5736-9912, Gerlach, Alexander L. ORCID: 0000-0001-6794-5349 and Witthoeft, Michael (2014). Improving heartbeat perception in patients with medically unexplained symptoms reduces symptom distress. Biol. Psychol., 101. S. 69 - 77. AMSTERDAM: ELSEVIER. ISSN 1873-6246

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Abstract

Distortions in interoceptive accuracy have been linked to somatoform disorders. In line with cognitive theories of symptom formation in somatoform disorders, decreases in interoceptive accuracy have recently been observed to co-occur with more severe symptom reports. The current study tested the hypothesis that experimentally increasing interoceptive accuracy should decrease symptom severity in somatoform disorders. Twenty-nine patients with somatoform disorders were instructed in a newly developed heartbeat perception training procedure. Heartbeat perception, as a proxy for interoceptive accuracy, was assessed with a mental tracking task. Although there were no significant differences between the training group and a waiting control group (n = 23) regarding increases in heartbeat perception, health anxiety served as a moderator and significant reductions in state symptom reports were observed after training. These findings suggest a relation between lower interoceptive accuracy and the perception of bodily symptoms in somatoform disorders. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Schaefer, Manuela UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Egloff, Boris UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-5736-9912 UNSPECIFIED Gerlach, Alexander L. UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0001-6794-5349 UNSPECIFIED Witthoeft, Michael UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-431047
DOI:	10.1016/j.biopsycho.2014.05.012
Journal or Publication Title:	Biol. Psychol.
Volume:	101
Page Range:	S. 69 - 77
Date:	2014
Publisher:	ELSEVIER
Place of Publication:	AMSTERDAM
ISSN:	1873-6246
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; INTEROCEPTIVE AWARENESS; ET-AL.; SOMATIZATION; ANXIETY; HYPOCHONDRIASIS; BRAIN Multiple languages Psychology, Biological; Behavioral Sciences; Psychology; Psychology, Experimental Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/43104