Anxiety Sensitivity Affects Patients’ Care, Recovery
Daily Nurse
DECEMBER 29, 2023
Clinicians need to have a better understanding of the potential impact of patients’ anxiety sensitivity, or “fear of fear,” according to an article published in American Journal of Critical Care ( AJCC ). When a patient has anxiety sensitivity, they misinterpret nonthreatening symptoms as threatening, assessing the potential meaning across physical, social or cognitive domains.
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