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- Title
Injection Phobia: A Systematic Review of Psychological Treatments.
- Authors
Maxine X. Patel; Dawn Baker; Chiara Nosarti
- Abstract
Injectable medications are commonplace but injection phobia can have a detri-mental impact on the utilization of health care by patients with subsequent adverse clinical outcomes. This systematic review aimed to identify the various psychological treatments for injection phobia and to assess their effectiveness. A systematic literature search was conducted using Cochrane, PsycINFO, EMBASE, MEDLINE, and AMED databases. Studies with five or more cases that investigated psychological treatment outcomes were selected and assessed in terms of methodological quality, type of intervention and outcomes. Eighty-four publications were identified by the search. Only three studies fulfilled the selection criteria and all used cognitive-behavioural techniques, including exposure to the feared object through a traditional graded hierarchy. Methodology differed but all had optimistic outcomes. Psychological treatments for injection fear or phobia exist, but the overall quality of evidence for treatment effectiveness is poor and outcome measures need consensus and further development.
- Publication
Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapy, 2005, Vol 33, Issue 3, p343
- ISSN
1352-4658
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/s1352465805002134