Acrophobia in high school students, guntur, andhra pradesh, india

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Sankara Pitchaiah Podila and Nazia Sultana

Phobias are common in human life. Acrophobia, The present study was aimed to know the Acrophobia among 8th to 10th studying students in rural and urban Government schools. The response was taken from 3399 students (8th:1175, 9th:1095, 10th:1129). The study found that the phobia was more in Namburu and Ponnekallu school students (24.39%). In the urban schools the highest percentage was noticed in SK school (25.87). Homeopathy, Exposure based therapy, Cognitive therapy are some of the useful treatment methods. Recently Ophobia has been proposed for better treatment.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.24327/ijcar.2019.16942.3151
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