Blood-Injection-Injury Phobia and Dog Phobia in Youth: Psychological Characteristics and Associated Features in a Clinical Sample.

Oar, EL; Farrell, LJ; Waters, AM; Ollendick, TH

Blood-Injection-Injury Phobia and Dog Phobia in Youth: Psychological Characteristics and Associated Features in a Clinical Sample.

Oar, EL Farrell, LJ Waters, AM Ollendick, TH

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Publisher:: Elsevier BV
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Behav Ther, 2016, 47, (3), pp. 312-324
Issue Date:: 2016-05

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dc.contributor.author	Oar, EL
dc.contributor.author	Farrell, LJ
dc.contributor.author	Waters, AM
dc.contributor.author	Ollendick, TH
dc.date.accessioned	2022-08-19T03:07:03Z
dc.date.available	2016-01-04
dc.date.available	2022-08-19T03:07:03Z
dc.date.issued	2016-05
dc.identifier.citation	Behav Ther, 2016, 47, (3), pp. 312-324
dc.identifier.issn	0005-7894
dc.identifier.issn	1878-1888
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/160503
dc.description.abstract	Blood-Injection-Injury (BII) phobia is a particularly debilitating condition that has been largely ignored in the child literature. The present study examined the clinical phenomenology of BII phobia in 27 youths, relative to 25 youths with dog phobia-one of the most common and well-studied phobia subtypes in youth. Children were compared on measures of phobia severity, functional impairment, comorbidity, threat appraisals (danger expectancies and coping), focus of fear, and physiological responding, as well as vulnerability factors including disgust sensitivity and family history. Children and adolescents with BII phobia had greater diagnostic severity. In addition, they were more likely to have a comorbid diagnosis of a physical health condition, to report more exaggerated danger expectancies, and to report fears that focused more on physical symptoms (e.g., faintness and nausea) in comparison to youth with dog phobia. The present study advances knowledge relating to this poorly understood condition in youth.
dc.format	Print-Electronic
dc.language	eng
dc.publisher	Elsevier BV
dc.relation.ispartof	Behav Ther
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1016/j.beth.2016.01.004
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.subject	1701 Psychology
dc.subject.classification	Clinical Psychology
dc.subject.mesh	Adaptation, Psychological
dc.subject.mesh	Adolescent
dc.subject.mesh	Animals
dc.subject.mesh	Blood
dc.subject.mesh	Child
dc.subject.mesh	Comorbidity
dc.subject.mesh	Dogs
dc.subject.mesh	Emotions
dc.subject.mesh	Fear
dc.subject.mesh	Female
dc.subject.mesh	Humans
dc.subject.mesh	Injections
dc.subject.mesh	Male
dc.subject.mesh	Phobic Disorders
dc.subject.mesh	Risk Factors
dc.subject.mesh	Wounds and Injuries
dc.subject.mesh	Blood
dc.subject.mesh	Animals
dc.subject.mesh	Dogs
dc.subject.mesh	Humans
dc.subject.mesh	Wounds and Injuries
dc.subject.mesh	Injections
dc.subject.mesh	Risk Factors
dc.subject.mesh	Adaptation, Psychological
dc.subject.mesh	Emotions
dc.subject.mesh	Fear
dc.subject.mesh	Phobic Disorders
dc.subject.mesh	Comorbidity
dc.subject.mesh	Adolescent
dc.subject.mesh	Child
dc.subject.mesh	Female
dc.subject.mesh	Male
dc.title	Blood-Injection-Injury Phobia and Dog Phobia in Youth: Psychological Characteristics and Associated Features in a Clinical Sample.
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	47
utslib.location.activity	England
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Science
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dc.date.updated	2022-08-19T03:07:02Z
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Abstract:

Blood-Injection-Injury (BII) phobia is a particularly debilitating condition that has been largely ignored in the child literature. The present study examined the clinical phenomenology of BII phobia in 27 youths, relative to 25 youths with dog phobia-one of the most common and well-studied phobia subtypes in youth. Children were compared on measures of phobia severity, functional impairment, comorbidity, threat appraisals (danger expectancies and coping), focus of fear, and physiological responding, as well as vulnerability factors including disgust sensitivity and family history. Children and adolescents with BII phobia had greater diagnostic severity. In addition, they were more likely to have a comorbid diagnosis of a physical health condition, to report more exaggerated danger expectancies, and to report fears that focused more on physical symptoms (e.g., faintness and nausea) in comparison to youth with dog phobia. The present study advances knowledge relating to this poorly understood condition in youth.

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