None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
The primary objective of this study is to measure and track the psychosocial consequences of a severe burn injury in terms of its impact of patients’ mental health. Screening all severe burns injury patients admitted to the Severe Burns Injury Unit will offer all patients the opportunity for outcome tracking and collect the necessary extensive cohort data on which to base future treatment, policy and advocacy as well as a targeted study on early intervention for PTSD. Burn patients are at risk of developing this disorder, which is associated with increased rates of medical morbidity, poor health-related quality of life, and functional impairment. It is important to note that primary care, rather than specialty mental health services, has been the point of contact with the health care system for the majority of individuals with PTSD. Improving detection of PTSD, adverse coping styles and depression are important steps in addressing the health and mental health burden experienced by these patients.
Interventions
Collection of non-identified data from burn survivors. Data sets include:
1. Demographic data
2. Injury/hospitalisation data including TBSA, length of stay, need for surgery
3. Mental health/trauma symptoms including post-traumatic stress, depression, anxiety, coping
4. Measurement of quality of life post-injury
Screening will be done at 2-4 weeks post injury and then every 3 months in the first year and then annualy for 5 years. Each screening visit on average takes between 30 minutes to 1 ho
Collection of non-identified data from burn survivors. Data sets include: 1. Demographic data 2. Injury/hospitalisation data including TBSA, length of stay, need for surgery 3. Mental health/trauma symptoms including post-traumatic stress, depression, anxiety, coping 4. Measurement of quality of life post-injury Screening will be done at 2-4 weeks post injury and then every 3 months in the first year and then annualy for 5 years. Each screening visit on average takes between 30 minutes to 1 hour.
Sponsors
The NSW Institute of Psychiatry
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to 100 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria is 1) Ability to consent to participate to this screening study and 2) Admission to the Severe Burn Injury at Royal North Shore Hospital with a burn injury. Criteria for admission to a specialist burn unit is as follows: any intubated patient, inhalation injuries with cutaneous burns, head and neck, hand, face or genital burns, mid-dermal, deep dermal or full thickness burns equal or greater than 20%, burns with significant co-morbidities, associated trauma, circumferential burn to limbs or chest that compromises, circulation or respiration, all electrical and chemical burn injuries
Exclusion criteria
Patients younger than 18 years of age and those with issues that impair the ability to give informed consent will be excluded. We are wanting to screen all burns patients admitted to the Severe Burns Injury Unit
Outcome results
None listed