Hemophobia

10/01/2017 - "Fear of blood, injections, and needles commonly prevents or delays individuals' receipt of health care, such as vaccines or blood draws. "

06/01/2003 - "The primary reason selected for each type of behaviour was: (a) pressure of the social environment; (b) belief that injection is a more efficient route than smoking or sniffing heroin; (c) concern about health consequences (especially fears of HIV and overdose), and fear of blood or of sticking a needle into one's veins; (d), pressure of the social environment and (e) concern about health consequences and vein problems. "

02/01/1997 - "The inverse relationship between GHb and the number of blood glucose measurements per day was mainly influenced by the fear of blood and injury. "
02/01/1997 - "Increased fear of blood and injury may lead some patients to perform few home blood glucose measurements and may result in poorer glycemic control. "
02/01/1997 - "Patients with high scores for the fear of blood and injury performed fewer blood glucose measurements and had poorer glycemic control; conversely, subjects without fear of blood and injury performed more daily blood glucose measurements and had better glycemic control. "
02/01/1997 - "Type I diabetic patients with GHb levels > or = 8% had higher psychological distress, scored significantly higher for symptoms of agoraphobia and for fear of blood and injury, had substantially higher levels of anxiety-depression, and performed significantly fewer blood glucose measurements per day. "

10/15/2016 - "DA and GAG had similar results regarding: DAS score (p=0.13), fear of blood tests (OR=4.68; OR=4.09) and blood donations (OR=3.13; OR=3.10). "

10/01/2019 - "Fear of blood, injections and vasovagal reactions, and a lack of knowledge of the donation process were revealed as important barriers to the decision to donate blood. "
05/01/2008 - "Fear of blood, injury, and injections, and its relationship to dental anxiety and probability of avoiding dental treatment among 18-year-olds in Norway."
01/01/2019 - "The objective of the present study was to investigate the fear of blood, injections and fainting as barriers to blood donation in a sample of primary healthcare users in a Brazilian municipality. "
10/01/2019 - "Participants completed measures assessing psychosocial variables, including religiosity, knowledge regarding blood donation process, overall quality of life, blood donation of peers, sociodemographic variables, and the fear of blood, injections, and fainting. "
01/01/2019 - "Fear of blood, injections and fainting are barriers to blood donation in Brazil. "

09/01/1999 - "Behaviour Research and Therapy, 34, 33-39.] has shown that specific phobia symptoms of adults cluster into three subtypes: animal phobia, blood-injection-injury phobia and environmental-situational phobia. "

04/01/2009 - "The remaining 12% would refuse blood transfusion, even if it was life-saving, because of the fear of blood transfusion complications. "

02/01/1997 - "Phobic symptoms, particularly the fear of blood and injury, are associated with poor glycemic control in type I diabetic adults."
02/01/1997 - "Increased fear of blood and injury may lead some patients to perform few home blood glucose measurements and may result in poorer glycemic control. "
02/01/1997 - "Patients with high scores for the fear of blood and injury performed fewer blood glucose measurements and had poorer glycemic control; conversely, subjects without fear of blood and injury performed more daily blood glucose measurements and had better glycemic control. "