Assessment of coping strategies associated with syncope in blood donors

Kaloupek, Danny G.; Scott, John R.; Khatami, Valerie

doi:10.1016/0022-3999(85)90043-1

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“…16 The evolutionary perspective proposed here can explain many seemingly paradoxical aspects of BIITS phobia. For example, Kaloupek and colleagues 13 found that contrary to expectations, blood donors were found to faint more frequently with experienced phlebotomists than with inexperienced phlebotomists. This observation is consistent with the evolutionary explanation presented here.…”

Section: A New Human-specific Adaptationist Proposal For Faintnessmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This observation is consistent with the evolutionary explanation presented here. As Kaloupek and colleagues 13 note, the inexperienced phlebotomist is "slow and communicative" while the experienced phlebotomist is "rapid and noncommunicative." A sharp object held by a rapidly moving noncommunicative stranger shares enough stimulus properties with a life-threatening middle paleolithic assault to elicit a response appropriate to a lethal stimulus.…”

Section: A New Human-specific Adaptationist Proposal For Faintnessmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…3,19,20 Vasodepressor (vasovagal, neurocardiovascular) syncope and presyncope greatly overlap with DSM-IV-TR BIITS phobia. 13,16 "Lumpers" may be able to argue that whether these symptoms are diagnosed as BIITS phobia or as vasovagal syncope depends predominantly on whether the first clinician to evaluate the patient is a mental health provider or an internist. More recent critical reviews, beginning with Kaloupek and colleagues, 13 have used vasovagal syncope synonymously with BIITS phobia.…”

Section: Overview Of Faintness In Blood-injection-injury Type Specifimentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This syncopal (flaccid immobility) response is not shared with any other phobic disorder. [13][14][15][16] Marks and colleagues 9 were the first to draw attention to the specificity of fainting when they found that fainting was reported by only 0.02% of their sample of "mixed phobias", and by 100% of their sample of BIITS phobia patients.…”

Section: Overview Of Faintness In Blood-injection-injury Type Specifimentioning

confidence: 99%

“…13,14,23 Attempts to divide fainters into subgroups, depending on whether they faint at the sight of the syringe or only after blood is drawn have met with limited success. Attempts to divide fainters into subgroups depending on whether they actually faint or just experience faintness have also failed.…”

Section: Overview Of Faintness In Blood-injection-injury Type Specifimentioning

confidence: 99%

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Freeze, Flight, Fight, Fright, Faint: Adaptationist Perspectives on the Acute Stress Response Spectrum

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FOCUS POINTS• Threat-induced fainting (flaccid immobility), which often presents as blood-injection-injury type specific phobia, may have evolved as a defense response during human intragroup and intergroup warfare, rather than as a pan-mammalian defense reaction, as is currently assumed. 1,2 This initial freeze response is the "stop, look, and listen" action tendency associated with fear. Prey that remain "frozen" during threat are more likely to avoid capture, because the visual cortex and the retina of mammalian carnivores (and, to a lesser degree, of male Homo sapiens) evolved primarily for detecting moving objects and not color. 3,4 This initial freeze response is followed by attempts to flee, and then by attempts to fight; in that order (thus "flight or fight"

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Section: A New Human-specific Adaptationist Proposal For Faintnessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: A New Human-specific Adaptationist Proposal For Faintnessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Overview Of Faintness In Blood-injection-injury Type Specifimentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Overview Of Faintness In Blood-injection-injury Type Specifimentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Overview Of Faintness In Blood-injection-injury Type Specifimentioning

confidence: 99%

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Vögele¹

1992

Psychologische Aspekte Medizinischer Maßnahmen

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Family history of hypertension and vasovagal symptoms during blood donation

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Adler

1995

J Behav Med

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Vasovagal reactions during blood donation were assessed in 185 individuals with and 298 individuals without a parental history of hypertension. It was predicted that individuals at genetic risk for hypertension would be less likely to faint or suffer pronounced vasovagal reactions, presumably by virtue of altered baroreflex sensitivity. A relationship between a parental history of hypertension and vasovagal responses was observed, albeit modified by blood donation experience and sex. Nurses obtaining blood from inexperienced donors without a parental history of hypertension were significantly more likely to recline the subject's chair than those obtaining blood from inexperienced donors with a parental history of hypertension or experienced donors. Questionnaire data were consistent with these findings. These results may be an interesting reflection of group differences in baroreflex sensitivity and have implications for screening potential donors.

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Assessment of coping strategies associated with syncope in blood donors

Cited by 40 publications

References 19 publications

Freeze, Flight, Fight, Fright, Faint: Adaptationist Perspectives on the Acute Stress Response Spectrum

Freeze, Flight, Fight, Fright, Faint: Adaptationist Perspectives on the Acute Stress Response Spectrum

Perioperativer Streß

Family history of hypertension and vasovagal symptoms during blood donation

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