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Ohio University: Study - Fear Leads People to Think Donating Blood Will Make Others Faint
November 14, 2018
ATHENS, Ohio, Nov. 14 -- Ohio University issued the following news release:

A new study by Ohio University faculty members showed that people who are afraid to have their blood drawn believe more people faint or have other symptoms than what statistics show actually occurs.

"Based on our prior study we did expect that people would over-estimate the risk of fainting, and we did anticipate that the predicted risk would increase as a function of level of fear," t . . .

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