Having different categories of fears makes sense, but it is so easy to wrongly attribute or categorize some of these dangers.
Questions had been designed to measure established psychological factors that might serve to mediate the various treatments; for example, whether a respondent agreed with the statement, "I am afraid that I will make my symptoms worse if I exercise" fell into the category of fear avoidance.
It is widely believed that there are some basic emotion types (e.g., happiness, anger, and sadness), and each emotion belongs to one or more basic types2; on the other hand, emotions may also differ in their intensity, for example, scared is a stronger emotion than afraid although they both belong to the category of fear.
All acts of war trauma in this study were reported as perpetrated by Burmese soldiers, with the exception of stories under the category of fear of Thai police or deportation from Thailand and two participants who reported violence perpetuated by Democratic Karen Buddhist Army DKBAA) soldiers.
In fact, Wes had a whole category of fears reserved for his family, and as he stood shivering in the hallway, he reviewed them.
Integrating the data of Smith et al [1] and Schyns et al [2] in a meta-analysis, we first show that the six basic categories of emotion (happy, fear, surprise, disgust, anger, sadness plus neutral [3]) constitute a set of lowly correlated signals for data transmission by the face.
Second, data of our study were obtained with an instrument (i.e., the FQ) that primarily focuses on self-reported avoidance behavior related to a limited number of fear categories and our results may not be generalized to other specific fears such as fear of small animals.
Later the alternatives 'Not at all' and 'Somewhat' were combined into a category indicating low or no fear and 'Very' was used as the category for high level of fear.
This paves the way for more refusals from more categories of healthcare workers without fear of being disciplined by their employers.
We further asked to specify the main medical factors subdivided into the following categories: fear of severe infection, fear of adverse outcome, severe comorbidities, requiring further diagnostic work up, need for intravenous therapy, other reasons.
