Citation

Freitas SMSM, Lima CF, Albuquerque AK, de Freitas Júnior RA, de Albuquerque Souza GF, Souza ASR. J. Burn Care Res. 2019; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Affiliation

PhD in Maternal and Child Health, Instituto de Medicina Integral Prof. Fernando Figueira (IMIP). Professor of the Stricto Sensu Postgraduate Program at the IMIP. Adjunct Professor of the Maternal and Child Department at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE). Professor at the Universidade Católica de Pernambuco (UNICAP).

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, American Burn Association, Publisher Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

10.1093/jbcr/irz187

PMID

31730172

Abstract

AIM: analyze the influence of deep-degree burns on the quality of life (QoL) of women at treatment in ambulatory after hospital discharge.

METHOD: a cross-sectional study was conducted at a reference public hospital for burns in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, from August 2017 to May 2018. Fifty adult women over 20 years old who suffered deep burns and were in outpatient rehabilitation treatment were included. The variables studied were biological, sociodemographic and clinical. The dynamometry and goniometry tests and the instruments to verify the QV Burn Specific Health Scale-Revised - BSHS-R were included in the analysis. Multiple linear regression models were fitted to identify factors associated with the six domains of the QoL instrument.

RESULTS: the results identified a greater negative influence of burns on the QoL of women when associated with the variables: dark-black skin colour, low levels of education, low income, motion impairment in right upper limb and lesions less than six months in the face, head and neck region. It should be noticed that the overall QoL score presented a median of 92.0, a score considered high, revealing an important QoL impairment.

CONCLUSION: deep-degree burn victims had a great impact on physical, emotional and psychological abilities, acting harmfully on their self-image and causing difficulties in the execution of their daily and professional life activities, which are reinforced by aspects such as social position, level of education and extent and duration of injury, resulting in a low QoL.

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Language: en

Keywords

burns; quality of life; rehabilitation; women