There's long been the percept, that fear can be greatly reduced by just having knowledge, of which it is presumed that such knowledge is better than having unknowns--e.g., when one is going to face a very difficult and scary situation or circumstance. The paper by Lane & Samuels, 2015 from nursing practitioners-theorists, says as much.
The question still not being asked in these kinds of research studies (I'd like to see): What if good fear education was given say in pre-operative phases of surgery? Unfortunately, the practitioners, researchers, theorist of carefields, seem unable to even imagine this? It's not their fault. Their own medical education systems have not grappled with "fear" fully, but only are looking at the superficial aspects of education and fear--and improving outcomes of patients. We'll have to go much further than this, especially, if we want to truly transform the entire society, not just help individuals solve their symptoms.
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