background & aim: the fear of childbirth is defined as the fear experienced before, during and after birth. this study was carried out to study the relationship between fear of childbirth and obstetric variables . methods & materials : : this cross sectional study was conducted in a state hospital in kars, turkey on 403 pregnant women who were recruited from the delivery ward. the convenience s...

CONTEXT The fear-avoidance model was developed in an attempt to explain the process by which "pain experience" and "pain behavior" become dissociated from the actual pain sensation in individuals who manifest the phenomenon of exaggerated pain perception. High levels of fear avoidance can lead to chronic pain and disability and have successfully predicted rehabilitation time in the work-related...

This article investigates how 12 upper-elementary school teachers dealt with the occurrence of a terrorist attack in their city during hours and immediate aftermath. All were interviewed shortly after about goals, dilemmas, pedagogical strategies employed classroom. We found that day tried to focus on providing both emotional support adequate information pupils. While doing so, encountered four...

objectives: balance disorder is one of the most common problems after stroke causes falling and fear of falling in some patients. the balance based video games are newly used in people with motor problems. it is very important to use different interventions for balance issues. the aim of this study is to determine the effectiveness of videogame on balance and fear of falling in one participant....

Associating sensory cues with aversive outcomes is a relatively basic process shared across species. Yet higher-order cognitive processes likely contribute to associative fear learning in many circumstances, especially in humans. Here we ask whether fears can be acquired based on conceptual knowledge of object categories, and whether such concept-based fear conditioning leads to enhanced memory...

PURPOSE To investigate pathways in the association between fear of crime and obesity. DESIGN A cross-sectional survey was administered among residents aged 18 years and older across all Census tracts. SETTING Genesee County, Michigan. SUBJECTS A total of 3192 residents. MEASURES Body mass index (BMI) was calculated by using the respondents' reported height and weight. Composite fear-of-...

death fear is defined as a morbid, abnormal or persistent anxiety of one's own death or the process of his/her dying. fear of death is a feeling of dread, apprehension or solicitude (anxiety) when one thinks of the process of dying, or ceasing to ‘be’. nurses, as healthcare professionals, are exposed to dying patients and their beliefs about death phenomenon can impact on their general hea...

The Positive and Negative Affect Schedule for Children (PANAS-C) is a 27-item youth-report measure of positive affectivity and negative affectivity. Using 2 large school-age youth samples (clinic-referred sample: N = 662; school-based sample: N = 911), in the present study, we thoroughly examined the structure of the PANAS-C NA and PA scales and fit a bifactor model to the PANAS-C NA items. Our...