INTRODUCTION Anxiety disorders have severe complications for a mother and her developing baby. A few studies have focused on pregnancy related anxiety and its risk factors including fear of childbirth. Therefore, the current study aimed to explore components and dimensions of this kind of anxiety. METHODS This qualitative study (conventional content analysis) was conducted with mothers who re...

PURPOSE Approaching death seems to be associated with physiological/spiritual changes. Trajectories including the physical-psychological-social-spiritual dimension have indicated a terminal drop. Existential suffering or deathbed visions describe complex phenomena. However, interrelationships between different constituent factors (e.g., fear and pain, spiritual experiences and altered conscious...

OBJECTIVE To identify specific fears being entertained about general anaesthesia. METHODS People who do work in any medical facility were targeted in this prospective questionnaire-based study. All respondents were literate. The questionnaire was divided into two sections; (a) The baseline information, which included age, sex, marital status, occupation, previous exposure to anaesthesia and p...

Abstract This article examines Sikh conceptualizations about death and immortality, focusing on several thematic lines of inquiry drawn from the utterances Gurus ( gurbāṇī ): (i) ordinary or empirical death; (ii) deathless states; (iii) after death? (iv) this life; (v) personhood (non-)existence God. These themes address philosophical issues related to concerns fear death, belief in an afterlif...

ORIGINAL ARTICLE Background: Breast cancer is the most common cause of death in Asian countries, especially in Iran. The current solution, to increase survival and reduce complications, is the early diagnosis of breast cancer. However, fear of the disease is a deterrent to adopting preventive modes of behavior. This study aims to explore the fears faced by healthy women in Yazd, Iran. It also l...

Why do people take their own lives? To survive is the most basic human instinct; to take one’s own life is against this instinct. Imagine you are standing on the rooftop of a tall building and there is nothing between you and the fall to death! The normal response is fear and the step to take is to walk back. What does it take to overcome that fear and to jump down? The most important and commo...

This case of classical koro in a 52 year old male describes three essential characteristics, i.e., acute exacerbation of chronic anxiety, fear of genital retraction and fear that the complete disappearance of the organ into the abdomen will result in death. Various etiological, developmental and personality factors in the genesis of anxiety have been discussed. The patient was treated with anxi...

Most maternal deaths can be averted with known, effective interventions but countries require information about which women are dying and why, and what can been done to prevent such deaths in future. This paper describes the introduction of two approaches to reviewing maternal deaths and severe obstetric complications in 12 countries in transition in the WHO European Region - national-level con...