Correlates of Physical and Psychosocial Functioning Among Burn Patients
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The burn injury can one of the most serious and devastating injuries among people of all ages. The aim of the study was to identify correlates of physical and psychosocial functioning among burn patients. The study was conducted at the burn units of El-Mansoura University Hospital. Design: descriptive correlational design was used. Tools which were used for data collection: 1) Sociodemographic data and clinical data. 2) Brief Burn Specific Health Scale is adopted from (Kildal et al., 2001), to assess physical and psychosocial function in individual suffering from burn injury. The results of this study showed a statistically significant improvement in the physical and psychological functioning scores among patients from admission to discharge from hospital. This study concluded that Patients with burn injury suffer from a multitude of physical problems that alter their physical and psychosocial functional. Consequently, regular and comprehensive nursing intervention for follow up of these patients is necessary for life saving. Burn patients experience low functional outcome on the admission of hospital, which slightly improves during, by the discharge from hospital. This study recommended replication of the study on a larger probability sample from different geographical areas, to achieve more generalizable results. [Salwa A. Mohamed and Hanan Soliman. Correlates of Physical and Psychosocial Functioning Among Burn Patients. Journal of American Science 2011; 7(7): 313-318].(ISSN: 1545-1003). http://www.americanscience.org.
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