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  2. Fear of needles - Wikipedia

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    Fear of needles, known in medical literature as needle phobia, is the extreme fear of medical procedures involving injections or hypodermic needles. It is occasionally referred to as aichmophobia , although this term may also refer to a more general fear of sharply pointed objects.

  3. Fear of medical procedures - Wikipedia

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    Fear of medical procedures can be classified under a broader category of "blood, injection, and injury phobias". This is one of five subtypes that classify specific phobias. [1] A specific phobia is defined as a "marked and persistent fear that is excessive or unreasonable, cued by the presence (or anticipation) of a specific object or situation."

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  5. Psychosocial treatment of needle phobia in children - Wikipedia

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    The Visual Analogue Scale for Aversion, Fear, and Anxiety were used. The study defined "significant needle phobia" as an "aversion, fear, or anxiety score of greater than or equal to 5." The results of this study showed that the stress-reducing medical devices are effective in reducing aversion, fear, and anxiety towards the medical needles.

  6. Blood-injection-injury type phobia - Wikipedia

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    This is a common phobia with an estimated 3-4% prevalence in the general population, [3] though it has been found to occur more often in younger [1] [4] and less educated groups. [4] Prevalence of fear of needles which does not meet the BII phobia criteria is higher. [5] A proper name for BII has yet to be created.

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  8. The top 7 mental health challenges of the holidays and how to ...

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    So how to deal? Vivan Chung Easton, a therapist at Blueprint, says that it's important to set clear, healthy boundaries during family gatherings to protect your emotional well-being .

  9. List of phobias - Wikipedia

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    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 ...