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Patient Satisfaction After Conservative Treatment for Burn Scars in Saudi Arabia

Background Burn injury is a typical physical injury that occurs as a result of a thermal, electrical, or chemical stimulus. Burn injuries to the skin cause complicated issues, including scar marks, psychological impacts, and affect quality of life (QOL). The preferred treatment technique for burn sc...

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Autores principales: Almodumeegh, Abdulaziz S, AlKhudair, Muhammed R, Altammami, Abdulaziz F, Alsuhaim, Rakan H, Alhumaidan, Abdullah I, Alothman, Abdulrahman M
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Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8898341/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35265422
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.21896
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author Almodumeegh, Abdulaziz S
AlKhudair, Muhammed R
Altammami, Abdulaziz F
Alsuhaim, Rakan H
Alhumaidan, Abdullah I
Alothman, Abdulrahman M
author_facet Almodumeegh, Abdulaziz S
AlKhudair, Muhammed R
Altammami, Abdulaziz F
Alsuhaim, Rakan H
Alhumaidan, Abdullah I
Alothman, Abdulrahman M
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description Background Burn injury is a typical physical injury that occurs as a result of a thermal, electrical, or chemical stimulus. Burn injuries to the skin cause complicated issues, including scar marks, psychological impacts, and affect quality of life (QOL). The preferred treatment technique for burn scars is controversial, as attempts to control the contraction rate remain a challenge, often leading to a poor outcome. Thus, treating burn scar patients is one of the biggest challenges in reconstructive surgery. In this study, we aimed to assess the patients’ perception of pain and QOL after conservative treatment for burn scars in Saudi Arabia. Methodology This was a cross-sectional study conducted on Saudi Arabian patients who underwent conservative treatment for their burn scars. Information was obtained using a self-reported questionnaire which was distributed online using Google Forms on several social media platforms. MS Excel was used for data entry, while SPSS version 23 was used for data analysis. Results We collected 523 responses to our questionnaire. Among respondents, 70.2% were aged between 18-29 years and 62.1% were single. Most burns were on the upper limbs (74.2%), and 78% of burns were caused by a thermal stimulus (exposure to heat). In terms of emotional status, most respondents did not report significant emotional issues related to their burn scars with a mean emotional score of 12.5 out of 24. Overall, burn scars did not affect the respondents’ ability to work or independence in performing daily work. Regarding the impact of the burns on the patients’ appearance, 29.4% of respondents reported that their scars bothered them significantly, 64.2% reported that their appearance never bothered them, and 11.5% reported that they sometimes tried to forget how their appearance had been changed. Conclusions We found that conservative treatment of burn scars is effective in controlling the pain associated with the burns and can improve the patient’s ability to perform work and other daily activities. However, it did not completely improve the psychological distress associated with scars. Further investigations are required to understand the impact of adherence to conservative treatment for burn scars on the psychological status of patients.
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spelling pubmed-88983412022-03-08 Patient Satisfaction After Conservative Treatment for Burn Scars in Saudi Arabia Almodumeegh, Abdulaziz S AlKhudair, Muhammed R Altammami, Abdulaziz F Alsuhaim, Rakan H Alhumaidan, Abdullah I Alothman, Abdulrahman M Cureus Dermatology Background Burn injury is a typical physical injury that occurs as a result of a thermal, electrical, or chemical stimulus. Burn injuries to the skin cause complicated issues, including scar marks, psychological impacts, and affect quality of life (QOL). The preferred treatment technique for burn scars is controversial, as attempts to control the contraction rate remain a challenge, often leading to a poor outcome. Thus, treating burn scar patients is one of the biggest challenges in reconstructive surgery. In this study, we aimed to assess the patients’ perception of pain and QOL after conservative treatment for burn scars in Saudi Arabia. Methodology This was a cross-sectional study conducted on Saudi Arabian patients who underwent conservative treatment for their burn scars. Information was obtained using a self-reported questionnaire which was distributed online using Google Forms on several social media platforms. MS Excel was used for data entry, while SPSS version 23 was used for data analysis. Results We collected 523 responses to our questionnaire. Among respondents, 70.2% were aged between 18-29 years and 62.1% were single. Most burns were on the upper limbs (74.2%), and 78% of burns were caused by a thermal stimulus (exposure to heat). In terms of emotional status, most respondents did not report significant emotional issues related to their burn scars with a mean emotional score of 12.5 out of 24. Overall, burn scars did not affect the respondents’ ability to work or independence in performing daily work. Regarding the impact of the burns on the patients’ appearance, 29.4% of respondents reported that their scars bothered them significantly, 64.2% reported that their appearance never bothered them, and 11.5% reported that they sometimes tried to forget how their appearance had been changed. Conclusions We found that conservative treatment of burn scars is effective in controlling the pain associated with the burns and can improve the patient’s ability to perform work and other daily activities. However, it did not completely improve the psychological distress associated with scars. Further investigations are required to understand the impact of adherence to conservative treatment for burn scars on the psychological status of patients. Cureus 2022-02-04 /pmc/articles/PMC8898341/ /pubmed/35265422 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.21896 Text en Copyright © 2022, Almodumeegh et al. https://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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Almodumeegh, Abdulaziz S
AlKhudair, Muhammed R
Altammami, Abdulaziz F
Alsuhaim, Rakan H
Alhumaidan, Abdullah I
Alothman, Abdulrahman M
Patient Satisfaction After Conservative Treatment for Burn Scars in Saudi Arabia
title Patient Satisfaction After Conservative Treatment for Burn Scars in Saudi Arabia
title_full Patient Satisfaction After Conservative Treatment for Burn Scars in Saudi Arabia
title_fullStr Patient Satisfaction After Conservative Treatment for Burn Scars in Saudi Arabia
title_full_unstemmed Patient Satisfaction After Conservative Treatment for Burn Scars in Saudi Arabia
title_short Patient Satisfaction After Conservative Treatment for Burn Scars in Saudi Arabia
title_sort patient satisfaction after conservative treatment for burn scars in saudi arabia
topic Dermatology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8898341/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35265422
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.21896
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