Citation

Taal LA, Faber AW, Van Loey NE, Reynders CL, Hofland HW. Burns 1999; 25(6): 493-497.

Affiliation

Dutch Burns Foundation, Red Cross Hospital, Beverwijk, Netherlands.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1999, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

10498356

Abstract

The authors examined ratings on a scale of pain-related anxiety in 173 burn patients in three groups: patients with small burns, patients with moderate burns and patients with extensive burns. The data suggest a greater degree of anxiety during procedures and before procedures in the burn patients with extensive burns than in burn patients with small and moderate burns. This study introduces a novel measure of pain-related anxiety in clinical burn patients, the abbreviated Burn Specific Pain Anxiety Scale (BSPAS), which showed a high degree of reliability. The alpha coefficients were high for the BSPAS subscales.

Language: en