For clinicians, the association of glaucoma with blindness was the most frequent fear found in glaucomatous patients ("I think their first fear is 'am I going to go blind or not?").
As can be seen, the most frequent problems are the fear of disease progression (32.2%), of not being able to follow one's hobbies (24%) and the fear of having to go to hospital again (23.2%).
Caregiver respondents reported medium to high levels of burden, with the most frequent burden items including fear of the future for their loved one, stress related to being a caregiver with other personal responsibilities, social life interference, and uncertainty.
Most frequent for children were fear, sleep disturbance, bed-wetting and aggressiveness; for patients older than 15 years these were sleep disturbance, sadness, intrusive memories and anxiety (Table 3).
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Diabetic retinopathy is the most frequent vascular complication and the most feared by patients.
The most frequent reason for not using contraceptives was fear of side effects (35.9%) followed by being sexually not active (27.4%).
In our study, the patients' own fears and/or hesitations were the most frequent reasons for not being vaccinated.
Strikingly, the patients' own fears and/or hesitations were the most frequent reasons given for not having received the influenza and the pneumococcal vaccines (61% and 53.7%, respectively).
Fear of reoccurrence was the most frequent symptom one year after a flood elsewhere [ 5].
