Measurement properties of the Health Anxiety by Proxy Scale (HAPYS): A new questionnaire to assess parents' worries about their child's health.

Objective: Health anxiety by proxy refers to parents' excessive worries about their child's health. The Health Anxiety by Proxy scale (HAPYS) is a new self-report questionnaire to assess parents' worries and behaviors regarding their child's health. This study aimed to investigate the measurement properties of the HAPYS.

Internet-Delivered Therapy for Parents With Health Anxiety by Proxy: Protocol for a Single-Case Experimental Design Study.

Background: Health anxiety (HA) by proxy is described as parents' obsessive worries that their child is severely ill although this is not medically confirmed. Research on HA by proxy suggests that it is highly distressing for the parent and that the child may be at risk of developing maladaptive symptom coping strategies. No targeted treatment for this group exists.

Danish translation and cultural adaptation of the 'What do you think of hospital' patient reported experience measure for children and adolescents in outpatient settings.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to translate the patient reported experience measure (PREM) questionnaire"What do you think of the hospital? Help us to get better!" into Danish used in outpatient clinics and to explore its face and content validity.

Design And Methods: The translation process followed WHO recommendations and included forward translation, expert panel evaluation, back translation, pre-testing and cognitive interviews with 23 children and adolescents.

Results: Children and adolescents were positive to using PREM as a way to express their experiences.

Health anxiety by proxy - through the eyes of the parents.

Health anxiety by proxy is a newly described phenomenon where parents worry excessively that their child suffers from a serious illness. In a former study, six parents with distressing worries about their child's health were interviewed to develop the Health Anxiety by Proxy Scale. The present study is a secondary analysis of these semi-structured interview data using interpretative phenomenological analysis aiming to explore for the first time the lived experience of parents with health anxiety by proxy.

A new measure of excessive parental worries about children's health: Development of the Health Anxiety by Proxy Scale (HAPYS).

Objective: Health anxiety by proxy is a newly introduced term to describe parents' experience of excessive and unpleasant worries about their child's health. This article describes the development of a new measure, the Health Anxiety by Proxy Scale (HAPYS), for systematic assessment of health anxiety by proxy.

Method: The development of the HAPYS was performed over three phases.