VITiếng Việt
ICD-10 Vietnam

F40Phobic anxiety disorders

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Chapter V
Mental and behavioural disorders
Group F40-F48
Neurotic, stress- related and somatoform disorders
Official Vietnamese name
Rối loạn lo âu ám ảnh sợ
Additional WHO coding guidance
A group of disorders in which anxiety is evoked only, or predominantly, in certain well-defined situations that are not currently dangerous. As a result these situations are characteristically avoided or endured with dread. The patient's concern may be focused on individual symptoms like palpitations or feeling faint and is often associated with secondary fears of dying, losing control, or going mad. Contemplating entry to the phobic situation usually generates anticipatory anxiety. Phobic anxiety and depression often coexist. Whether two diagnoses, phobic anxiety and depressive episode, are needed, or only one, is determined by the time course of the two conditions and by

Related F40 codes

F40.0 Primary diagnosis candidate Agoraphobia F40.1 Primary diagnosis candidate Social phobias F40.2 Primary diagnosis candidate Specific (isolated) phobias F40.8 Primary diagnosis candidate Other phobic anxiety disorders F40.9 Primary diagnosis candidate Phobic anxiety disorder, unspecified

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  • Use one primary-diagnosis code and record only relevant additional conditions.
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  • Do not infer a diagnosis beyond the clinical record.

2026 regulatory basis

Indicators are taken from columns 24–29 of the classification accompanying Circular 06/2026/TT-BYT, cross-referenced with Decision 1849/QĐ-BYT and Official Dispatch 4059/BYT-BH.