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Acceptance and perceptions of NORPLANT among users in San Francisco, USA.

Two hundred and five women participating in a five-year clinical trial of NORPLANT and NORPLANT-2 were interviewed about their contraceptive and reproductive history, sources of information and knowledge of NORPLANT, experiences using the method, and the impressions of friends and family about the method. The most common reasons for trying the implants were dissatisfaction with other methods and perceptions about NORPLANT's ease of use. Forty-one percent of acceptors had anxiety prior to insertion; 49 percent of these feared pain, but only 5 percent said that they actually experienced signific…

Psychological distress in patients with hematological malignancies during the 2023-2025 war in Israel: a national survey and comparison with the COVID-19 pandemic.

BACKGROUND: Patients with hematological malignancies are vulnerable to psychological distress in times of crisis. We evaluated emotional burden, including demographic and clinical factors associated with war-related fears and depression severity, as well as coping strategies, and care continuity during the 2023-2025 war in Israel and compared findings to a prior COVID-19 survey. METHODS: A national cross-sectional survey was conducted in September 2025 among Hebrew-speaking patients with hematological malignancies. Data included sociodemographic and clinical items, disease management, fears (…

Psychosocial stressors experienced by people living with HIV during the pre-disclosure phase: a phenomenological analysis.

INTRODUCTION: The disclosure of HIV serostatus is central to HIV care and prevention across African countries; however, the psychological ex … comprised anxiety, depressive experience including suicidal ideation, and the repeated rehearsal of feared outcomes. Theme B, fear (six subthemes), spanned fear of infecting a partner, discrimination, intimate partner violence, disgracing the family, losing financial support and losing employment; for one participant, fear of job loss delayed the start …

Dysregulated emotional interference processing in affective and cognitive control brain regions in insomnia disorder.

STUDY OBJECTIVES: This study investigated the behavioral and neural responses underlying affective and cognitive control during emotional in … ith HC, ID patients exhibited significantly slower RTs when attending to neutral faces and ignoring fearful faces. For accuracy, a significant main effect of group indicated lower accuracy in ID patients than HC. Whole-brain ANOVA analysis revealed that under the ignore-fear condition, ID patients showed increased right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex ( …

Understanding tuberculosis among people with tuberculosis through an educational film: a qualitative study.

INTRODUCTION: Treatment of the two billion people with tuberculosis (TB) infection worldwide is crucial to prevent progression to TB disease and thereby prevent further transmission. However, TB is associated with fear and stigma, and knowledge gaps about TB disease are widespread, complicating adherence to treatment. As increasing knowledge about TB can reduce stigma and increase adherence to treatment, we developed an educational film about TB infection and disease. After showing the film to people with TB, our qualitative study aimed to evaluate the film and to explore perceptions, fears an…

Взаимосвязь между активными шагами и падающими психологическими факторами при множественном склерозе.

Цель: Лица с множественным склерозом (МС) сталкиваются с изменениями в балансе, такими, как плохие и ответные шаги, а также меняющиеся психологические факторы, связанные с падением, такие, как растущая обеспокоенность по поводу падения и опасения последствий падения. Такие опасения и страх могут быть связаны с мобильностью и влиять на нее. Однако эти отношения плохо понимаются людьми с MS. Цель этого исследования заключалась в изучении связи между реактивными действиями и осенними психологическими факторами, а также в оценке того, как эти отношения различаются между лицами, которые имели и не

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Purpose: Persons with multiple sclerosis (MS) experience changes in balance, such as poor and reactive stepping, as well as altered fall-related psychological factors, such as increased concern about falling and feared consequences about falling. Such concerns and fear may relate to and influence mobility. However, these relations are poorly understood in pe…

Emotional Prosodies Processing and Its Relationship With Neurodevelopment Outcome at 24 Months in Infants of Diabetic Mothers.

Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is one of the most common complications of pregnancy. Hyperglycemia of pregnancy is a risk not only for later obesity of the offspring but also do harm to their neurodevelopment from fetus. An ERP research has shown that children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) was characterized by impaired semantic processing. In this study, we used event-related potential (ERP) to assess the procession of different emotional prosodies (happy, fearful, and angry) in neonates of diabetic mothers, compared to the healthy term infants. And to explore whether the ERP measur…

Determinants of Place of Delivery during the COVID-19 Pandemic-Internet Survey in Polish Pregnant Women.

Background and Objectives: COVID-19 is a pandemic disease, and its unpredictable outcome makes it particularly dangerous, especially for pre … (85.1%) respondents were afraid of SARS-CoV-2 infection. The most frequently indicated factors were fear of complications in the newborn, fear of intrauterine fetal death, and congenital disabilities in a newborn. A total of 74 (14.3%) women considered home delivery. The main factors that discouraged the choice of home birth were the lack of profession …

Perceptions and use of traditional African medicine in Lubumbashi, Haut-Katanga province (DR Congo): A cross-sectional study.

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the desire of the Ministry of Health to integrate Traditional African Medicine into the Official Health … ional African Medicine (n = 3396), 55% declare no concern towards traditional medicine, while 42.5% fear looseness, overdose, intoxication, and lack of hygiene; from those who have not resorted to Traditional African Medicine (n = 882), 78% are fearful of fear looseness, witchcraft, and fetishism. Traditional African Medicine remains an important healt …

Competing risks of women and men who use fentanyl: "The number one thing I worry about would be my safety and number two would be overdose".

BACKGROUND: Standard public health approaches to risk communication do not address the gendered dynamics of drug use. The aim of this study … and men described other risks around health, safety, and state services that often superseded their fear of overdose. Women feared physical and sexual violence and prioritized caring for children and maintaining relations with child protective services, while men feared violence arising from obtaining and using street drugs and incarceration. Only wome …

The relationship between death anxiety and severity of mental illnesses.

OBJECTIVES: Death anxiety has been implicated theoretically and empirically in mental health and has been proposed to be a transdiagnostic c … 12 disorders. Neither meaning in life nor attachment style moderated the associations between death fears and psychopathology. CONCLUSIONS: The findings reveal a strong relationship between death anxiety and psychopathology across numerous disorders, further supporting the transdiagnostic role of fears of death. As such, clinical implications revolve …

The roles of early-life adversity and rumination in neural response to emotional faces amongst anxious and depressed adults.

BACKGROUND: Early-life adversity (ELA) is a risk factor for internalizing psychopathology (IP). ELA is also linked to alterations in neural … yses compared HC (n = 30), IP (n = 52), and IP + ELA (n = 50) neural responses to emotional (angry, fearful, happy, and sad) faces v. shapes, controlling for depression and anxiety symptoms. Parameter estimates of activation were extracted for significant between-group differences and tested as a mediator of ruminative brooding in IP + ELA. RESULTS: I …

Attitudes towards assisted suicide and euthanasia among care-dependent older adults (50+) in Austria: the role of socio-demographics, religiosity, physical illness, psychological distress, and social isolation.

BACKGROUND: Care-dependency constitutes an important issue with regard to the approval of end-of-life decisions, yet attitudes towards assis … did not trust physicians, those who reported active suicide ideation, and individuals with a strong fear of dying. With regard to euthanasia, living alone, religiosity and fear of dying were the central determinants of acceptance. CONCLUSIONS: Positive attitudes towards and will to (hypothetically) use assisted suicide and euthanasia were expressed by …

Presynaptic Serotoninergic Regulation of Emotional Processing: A Multimodal Brain Imaging Study.

BACKGROUND: The amygdala is a central node in the brain network that processes aversive emotions and is extensively innervated by dorsal raphe nucleus (DRN) serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine [5-HT]) neurons. Alterations in DRN 5-HT1A receptor availability cause phenotypes characterized by fearful behavior in preclinical models. However, it is unknown whether 5-HT1A receptor availability is linked specifically to the processing of aversive emotions in humans or whether it modulates connectivity in brain networks involved in emotion processing. To answer this question, we investigated the relations…

Development of a measure of childhood information learning experiences related to dental anxiety.

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to develop a measure of childhood information learning experiences related to dental anxiety according to Rachmnan's theory of fear acquisition entitled "Dental Information Learning History Questionnaire (DILHQ)" and to determine its test quality with regard to factorial validity, reliability, divergent, discriminant, and predictive validity. METHOD: Sample 1 included 228 dental patients, answering a 17-item-pool of the DILHQ, the Dental Anxiety Scale (DAS: Corah, 1969), and the Self-Consciousness Scale by Fenigstein et al. (1975). A second sample of 197 p…

The relationship between generalized social phobia and avoidant personality disorder in a national mental health survey.

OBJECTIVE: There has been ongoing clinical controversy dating back to the revised third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of … 4% for APD. The overlap between GSP and APD varied according to the number of GSP social situations feared. Although 36.4% of individuals with GSP were diagnosed with APD, the majority (57.3%) of individuals with GSP who feared all 13 social situations assessed were diagnosed with APD. Nearly 40% of individuals with APD also had GSP. Compared to indivi …

Prevalence of social phobia in non-demented elderly from a swedish population study.

OBJECTIVE: To examine the prevalence of social phobia, and how the different Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth E … d aged 78 and above (N = 352 women). MEASUREMENTS: Social phobia according to DSM-IV requiring: a) fearing social situations, b) experiencing the fear as unreasonable or excessive, c) avoiding feared social situations or enduring them with intense anxiety or distress, and d) that this causes social consequences. RESULTS: The 1-month prevalence of soc …

Common and distinct amygdala-function perturbations in depressed vs anxious adolescents.

CONTEXT: Few studies directly compare amygdala function in depressive and anxiety disorders. Data from longitudinal research emphasize the n … tional magnetic resonance imaging. During imaging, participants viewed facial expressions (neutral, fearful, angry, and happy) while attention was constrained (afraid, hostility, and nose-width ratings) or unconstrained (passive viewing). RESULTS: Left and right amygdala activation differed as a function of diagnosis, facial expression, and attention …

[Separation anxiety. Theoretical considerations].

The interest in separation anxiety is nowadays increasing: this disorder appearing during childhood may predispose to the occurrence of anxiety disorders (such as panic disorder and agoraphobia) and major depression into adulthood. Psychoanalytic theories differ on the nature of separation anxiety and its place in child development. For some authors, separation anxiety must be understood as resulting from the unconscious internal conflicts inherent in the individuation process and gradual attainment of autonomy. From this point of view, the fear of loss of mother by separation is not regarded …

Current Status of Neurofeedback for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder: A Systematic Review and the Possibility of Decoded Neurofeedback.

Background: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a neuropsychiatric affective disorder that can develop after traumatic life-events. Exp … allows patients to implicitly regulate multivariate voxel patterns of the BOLD signals related with feared stimuli. As such, DecNef effects are postulated to derive either from exposure or counter-conditioning, or some combination of both. Although the exact mechanism is not yet fully understood. DecNef has been successfully applied to reduce fear resp …