TY - JOUR
T1 - Quality of life in major burn patients in a tertiary care teaching hospital in south india
AU - Tiwari, Priya
AU - Kamath, Rajesh
AU - D’Souza, Brayal
AU - Kamath, Sagarika
AU - Pati, Ashalata
AU - Bhagat, Priyanka
AU - Keerthi Haripriya, D.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology. All rights reserved.
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Copyright 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2019/4/1
Y1 - 2019/4/1
N2 - Aim: To assess the quality of life of major burn patients in a tertiary care teaching hospital.Materials and Method: A prospective approach was taken to identify patients who visited the department of plastic surgery for follow up from October 2017 to March 2018 after obtaining institutional ethical clearance. Details regarding social demographics, nature of the injury and the cause of injury were recorded in addition to administration of the questionnaire WHOQOL-BREF to assess the quality of life. Quality of life has four domains for assessment of physical, psychological, social and environmental aspects of burn survivors.Results: A total of 100 patients with burn injuries were identified (63 males, 37 females; mean age = 35.14 years). Nature of injury and cause of injury has no statistical significance over the quality of life. Quality of life was neither poor nor good among majority of 2nd-degree burn patients.
AB - Aim: To assess the quality of life of major burn patients in a tertiary care teaching hospital.Materials and Method: A prospective approach was taken to identify patients who visited the department of plastic surgery for follow up from October 2017 to March 2018 after obtaining institutional ethical clearance. Details regarding social demographics, nature of the injury and the cause of injury were recorded in addition to administration of the questionnaire WHOQOL-BREF to assess the quality of life. Quality of life has four domains for assessment of physical, psychological, social and environmental aspects of burn survivors.Results: A total of 100 patients with burn injuries were identified (63 males, 37 females; mean age = 35.14 years). Nature of injury and cause of injury has no statistical significance over the quality of life. Quality of life was neither poor nor good among majority of 2nd-degree burn patients.
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U2 - 10.5958/0973-9130.2019.00104.X
DO - 10.5958/0973-9130.2019.00104.X
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85066334799
SN - 0973-9122
VL - 13
SP - 153
EP - 157
JO - Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology
JF - Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology
IS - 2
ER -