Background: Poorly managed burn pain affects the victim by delayed healing, psychological disturbances, and chronic pain. Burn injuries are fourth leading cause of worldwide. The incidence thermal burns in Kenya is 3%. Pain assessment control integral parts management that a should be offered. We lack data on patients during setup. Methods: A descriptive study was carried out at emergency depar...

objective: compulsive or binge eating is a kind of disturbed eating behavior, which is mostly observed among dieting women, and is integrated with appetite disorder, and uncontrolled eating of plenty of junk food. the compulsive eating scale (ces) created first by kagan & squires in 1984, is an eight-item self-reporting instrument that is made to measure the severity of binge eating disorder. t...

BACKGROUND The ideal method of providing stroke patients with information has not been established. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the effectiveness of providing stroke patients with computer-generated tailored written information. DESIGN Randomised controlled trial with blinded assessor. SETTING Acute stroke unit. PARTICIPANTS 138 stroke patients. METHODS Patients were randomised to receive ...

In order to evaluate simple means of determining the rate of recovery after general anaesthesia, the usefulness of the critical flicker fusion threshold test, the Maddox wing apparatus and the visual analogue scale were compared. The postanaesthetic recovery score was used as a reference. Two patient groups (n = 15 in each) received, in a randomized double-blind study, a similar balanced anaest...

An important component of effective postoperative pain management is a measure of the patient's pain intensity. This article examines three unidimensional pain measurement instruments and one multidimensional pain measurement instrument used in daily practice and clinical research. The strengths and weaknesses of the numerical rating scale, verbal descriptor scale, visual analogue scale, and th...

OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that homoeopathy is a placebo by examining its effect in patients with allergic rhinitis and so contest the evidence from three previous trials in this series. DESIGN Randomised, double blind, placebo controlled, parallel group, multicentre study. SETTING Four general practices and a hospital ear, nose, and throat outpatient department. PARTICIPANTS 51 pat...

Good correlation has been shown between pain scores derived from 4 different rating scales. The correlation was maintained when presentation of the scales was separated by a series of questions and by physical examination. There is good evidence that the 4 scales are measuring the same underlying pain variable as they calibrate well. There is also evidence that an 11-point (0-10) numerical rati...

Background and Purpose. Post-Stroke Fatigue (PSF) is a prevalent yet commonly neglected issue that impacts daily functions and quality of life in people post-stroke. To date no studies have attempted to validate a clinically-feasible and reliable instrument to quantify PSF. We developed the Visual Analog Fatigue Scale (VAFS) to eliminate difficulties and poor data validity in testing people pos...

Anti-glaucoma medications form the first line of treatment in glaucoma management. However, effectiveness medical management for is dented by poor adherence to anti-glaucoma medications. There a need elucidate barriers and address them order increase effectivity therapy. This study an attempt estimating behavior along with understanding various adherence. cross-sectional, hospital based was con...