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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 15 January 2025. Fear or disgust of objects with repetitive patterns of small holes or protrusions. Not to be confused with Trypanophobia. The holes in lotus seed heads elicit feelings of discomfort or repulsion in some people. Trypophobia is an aversion to the sight of repetitive patterns or clusters of ...
Some people have a fear of medical procedures at some point in their lifetime, which can include the fear of surgery, dental work, doctors, or needles. These fears are seldom diagnosed or treated, as they are often extinguished into adulthood and do not often develop into phobias preventing individuals from seeking medical attention.
The diagnosis criteria for BII phobias are stricter, with an estimated 3-4% prevalence in the general population, and this also includes blood-related phobias. [ 2 ] Prevalence of fear of needles has been increasing, with two studies showing an increase among children from 25% in 1995 to 65% in 2012 (for those born after 1999). [ 3 ]
The English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (from Greek φόβος phobos, "fear") occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, abnormal, unwarranted, persistent, or disabling fear as a mental disorder (e.g. agoraphobia), in chemistry to describe chemical aversions (e.g. hydrophobic), in biology to describe organisms that dislike certain conditions (e.g ...
Other – Situations which can lead to choking or vomiting, and children's fears of loud sounds or costumed characters. Although the avoidance resulting from specific phobia is comparable to other anxiety disorders, differential diagnosis is done through examining underlying causes for the behavior. [11]
Clinical assessment and diagnosis involve making observations and gathering information from multiple sources relating to the child's life in conjunction with a general diagnostic scheme. Both the DSM and ICD classification systems have evolved to use a multiaxial scheme, thus, clinicians have been using them not only for the classification of ...
In this study of 50 hydrophobic children around the mean age of 5½ the results were as follows: [2] 2% of parents linked their child's phobia to a direct conditioning episode. 26% of parents linked their child's phobia to a vicarious conditioning episodes. 56% of parents linked their child's phobia to their child's very first contact with water
They studied 69 children aged 7–12 that were scheduled to undergo venipuncture. To be included in the study, children had to fit all of the following criteria: [citation needed] be between 7 and 12 years old; have eaten their last meal three hours or more prior to venipuncture; have no neurodevelopmental delay, including verbal difficulty