Table 4. Description of the health anxiety measures that were cited by more than 10 articles.

Name and authors	# of studies	Health anxiety domains	# of items	Subscales	Original validation sample(s)	Psychometric properties
Hypoglycemia Fear Survey [128]	37	Cognitive Behavioral	33	Behaviour Worry	777 adults with type I diabetes	Overall alpha = 0.94
						Behaviour subscale alpha = 0.85
						Worry subscale = 0.94
						Overall test-retest reliability = 0.74
						Test-retest reliability for the subscales = 0.63–0.81
						Evidence of construct, discriminant, and convergent validity
Falls Efficacy Scale-International [118]	21	Cognitive	16	N/A	704 people aged between 60–95 years old	Overall alpha = 0.96
						Test-retest reliability ICC = 0.96
						Evidence of construct and discriminant validity
						Cut-off score: yes
Activities-specific Balance Confidence Scale [120]	24	Cognitive	16	N/A	60 community seniors (aged 65–95)	Overall alpha = 0.96
						Test-retest reliability = 0.92
						Evidence of convergent, divergent, and discriminant validity
						Cut-off score: yes [129]
Cardiac Anxiety Questionnaire [123]	30	Cognitive Emotional Perceptual Behavioral	18	Fear Avoidance Attention	178 post-angiography patients in a cardiology unit; 10 outpatients referred to a behavioral cardiology liaison program	Overall alpha = 0.83
						Evidence of convergent validity
Concerns About Recurrence Scale [29]	15	Cognitive Emotional	30	Overall fear index Health Worries Womanhood Worries Role Worries Death Worries	169 women with breast cancer	Overall fear index alpha = 0.87
						For the Worries scale alpha = 0.89–0.94
						Evidence of convergent validity
Fear of Progression Questionnaire [23]	29	Cognitive Emotional Behavioral	43	Affective reactions Partnership/family Work Loss of autonomy Coping	411 patients (188 cancer patients, 97 diabetes patients, 124 patients with rheumatic disease)	Overall alpha = 0.95
						Subscales alpha = 0.70–0.92
						Overall test-retest reliability = 0.94
						Test-retest reliability for the subscales = 0.77–0.91
						Evidence of discriminant and convergent validity
						Cut-off score (for the short-form version): yes [41, 130]
Fear of Cancer Recurrence Inventory [131]	16	Cognitive Emotional Perceptual Behavioral	42	Triggers Severity Psychological distress Coping strategies Functioning impairments Insight Reassurance	1704 breast, prostate, lung and colon cancer patients	Overall alpha = 0.95
						Subscales alpha = 0.75–0.91
						Overall test-retest reliability = 0.89
						Test-retest reliability for the subscales = 0.58–0.83
						Evidence of construct, discriminant, convergent and divergent validity
						Cut-off score (for the short-form version): yes (68)