Burns
Conditions
Keywords
Burn injury, Burn recovery
Brief summary
To examine long term physical and psychosocial outcomes of pediatric burn survivors. We want to learn about thoughts, feelings, coping style, social support, and overall adjustment following burn injury.
Detailed description
To evaluate the long term quality of life of adolescents and adults who suffered severe pediatric burns. This study will include an array of physical and psychosocial assessments, thus providing a unique and complete set of information on the long term outcomes in this population.
Interventions
complete blood count, routine chemistries, liver function test, retinol binding protein, transferrin, prothrombin time, partial thromboplastin time, fibrinogen, Vitamin A and Zinc, Insulin Growth Factor levels and binding proteins, cytokines (interleukins 1, 6, 12), insulin, thyroid hormones, cortisol, 25-hydroxyvitamin D, and osteocalcin.
Sponsors
Study design
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
* At least 60% third degree total body surface area * Acute burn treatment at Shriners Burns Hospital for Children - Galveston between 1986-2005 * Three years post injury * Current age of at least 16 years