Short Health Anxiety Inventory.

SHAI

What it measures

Health anxiety / hypochondriasis; Illness Likelihood (worry, body vigilance) + Negative Consequences of illness

Length and format

18 (a 14-item core + 4 negative-consequences items; a 64-item parent HAI exists). 4 graded statements per item (0-3); summed 0-54; screening cut-offs (~18) (self-report questionnaire)

Language versions

Many languages incl. ES, DE, IT, SV, ZH, FA, PT, TR

Normative data

Normative data for this instrument is held in our reference library. The per-population breakdown is not published here.

Licence

open with attribution

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Reference

Salkovskis, P. M., Rimes, K. A., Warwick, H. M., & Clark, D. M. (2002). The Health Anxiety Inventory. Psychological Medicine, 32(5), 843-853.