Life Perspective and Social Health after Acid Burn: An Observational Study of Three Victims

After an acid attack, also known as vitriolage, many patients suffer from changes in life perspective, behavior, feelings, social withdrawal, social isolation, and depression. Formal and informal social support is vital for the proper and complete rehabilitation of acid burn victims. The government...

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Autores principales: Athar, Unsa, Rahman, Saad Ur, Gill, Seemab Imtiaz, Jamil, Taimoor, Sharif, Muhammad Awais, Sana, Muhammad Khawar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Psychology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7470663/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32905467
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9546
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Jamil, Taimoor
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description After an acid attack, also known as vitriolage, many patients suffer from changes in life perspective, behavior, feelings, social withdrawal, social isolation, and depression. Formal and informal social support is vital for the proper and complete rehabilitation of acid burn victims. The government should form separate public help centers for such patients. The need of the hour, however, is the invention of proper legislation for the prevention of this heinous crime.
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spelling pubmed-74706632020-09-04 Life Perspective and Social Health after Acid Burn: An Observational Study of Three Victims Athar, Unsa Rahman, Saad Ur Gill, Seemab Imtiaz Jamil, Taimoor Sharif, Muhammad Awais Sana, Muhammad Khawar Cureus Psychology After an acid attack, also known as vitriolage, many patients suffer from changes in life perspective, behavior, feelings, social withdrawal, social isolation, and depression. Formal and informal social support is vital for the proper and complete rehabilitation of acid burn victims. The government should form separate public help centers for such patients. The need of the hour, however, is the invention of proper legislation for the prevention of this heinous crime. Cureus 2020-08-04 /pmc/articles/PMC7470663/ /pubmed/32905467 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9546 Text en Copyright © 2020, Athar et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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