Nosophobia

phobia, class of disease
Subclass of	specific phobia, disease
Main subject	disease
Health specialty	psychiatry
ICPC 2 ID	A27

Nosophobia, dem sanso know as disease phobia^[1] anaa illness anxiety disorder,^[2] be de irrational fear of contracting a disease, a type of specific phobia. Primary fears of dis kind be fear of contracting HIV infection (AIDS phobia anaa HIV serophobia),^[3] pulmonary tuberculosis (phthisiophobia),^[4] sexually transmitted infections (syphilophobia anaa venereophobia),^[5] cancer (carcinophobia), heart diseases (cardiophobia^[6]), COVID-19 (coronaphobia), den catching de common cold anaa flu.

De word nosophobia dey cam from de Greek νόσος nosos for "disease" den φόβος, phobos, "fear".^[7]

References

↑ Sirri, Laura; Grandi, Silvana (2012). "Illness Behavior". The Psychosomatic Assessment. Advances in Psychosomatic Medicine (in English). 32: 160–181. doi:10.1159/000330015. ISBN 978-3-8055-9854-5. PMID 22056904.
↑ "What Is Nosophobia?". WebMD (in English). Retrieved 2022-02-09.
↑ Mariner WK (November 1995). "AIDS phobia, public health warnings, and lawsuits: deterring harm or rewarding ignorance?". American Journal of Public Health. 85 (11): 1562–8. doi:10.2105/AJPH.85.11.1562. PMC 1615706. PMID 7485674.
↑ Riva MA, Ploia PR, Rocca S, Cesana G (September 2013). ""Phthisiophobia": the difficult recognition of transmission of tuberculosis to health care workers". La Medicina del Lavoro. 104 (5): 359–67. PMID 24180084.
↑ Janssen, Diederik F. (2020). "Noddle Pox: Syphilis and the Conception of Nosomania/Nosophobia (c. 1665–c. 1965)". Canadian Bulletin of Medical History. 37 (2). University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress): 319–359. doi:10.3138/cbmh.432-032020. ISSN 0823-2105. PMID 32822549. S2CID 221239420.
↑ Eifert GH (July 1992). "Cardiophobia: a paradigmatic behavioural model of heart-focused anxiety and non-anginal chest pain". Behaviour Research and Therapy. 30 (4): 329–45. doi:10.1016/0005-7967(92)90045-I. PMID 1616469.
↑ "What Is Fear of Getting Sick (Nosophobia)?". clevelandclinic.org. cleveland clinic. 2022-03-15. Retrieved 2022-08-31. The word nosophobia originates from the Greek words for disease, nosos, and fear, phobos.

External links

[Sirri_2012_160–181-1] Sirri, Laura; Grandi, Silvana (2012). "Illness Behavior". The Psychosomatic Assessment. Advances in Psychosomatic Medicine (in English). 32: 160–181. doi:10.1159/000330015. ISBN 978-3-8055-9854-5. PMID 22056904.

[:1-2] "What Is Nosophobia?". WebMD (in English). Retrieved 2022-02-09.

[3] Mariner WK (November 1995). "AIDS phobia, public health warnings, and lawsuits: deterring harm or rewarding ignorance?". American Journal of Public Health. 85 (11): 1562–8. doi:10.2105/AJPH.85.11.1562. PMC 1615706. PMID 7485674.

[4] Riva MA, Ploia PR, Rocca S, Cesana G (September 2013). ""Phthisiophobia": the difficult recognition of transmission of tuberculosis to health care workers". La Medicina del Lavoro. 104 (5): 359–67. PMID 24180084.

[Janssen_2020_pp._319–3592-5] Janssen, Diederik F. (2020). "Noddle Pox: Syphilis and the Conception of Nosomania/Nosophobia (c. 1665–c. 1965)". Canadian Bulletin of Medical History. 37 (2). University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress): 319–359. doi:10.3138/cbmh.432-032020. ISSN 0823-2105. PMID 32822549. S2CID 221239420.

[6] Eifert GH (July 1992). "Cardiophobia: a paradigmatic behavioural model of heart-focused anxiety and non-anginal chest pain". Behaviour Research and Therapy. 30 (4): 329–45. doi:10.1016/0005-7967(92)90045-I. PMID 1616469.

[7] "What Is Fear of Getting Sick (Nosophobia)?". clevelandclinic.org. cleveland clinic. 2022-03-15. Retrieved 2022-08-31. The word nosophobia originates from the Greek words for disease, nosos, and fear, phobos.

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