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15639364

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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2005-1-10
pubmed:abstractText
We hypothesised that patients with a co-morbid psychiatric illness would show poorer outcomes in recovery from their burn injury compared to patients with equivalent burn injury but without a pre-existing psychiatric illness. A secondary aim was to investigate the effect of self-inflicted burn injury. Consecutive admissions (n = 190) to a burns inpatient unit were screened for the existence of a formal pre-burn psychiatric disorder. Nine patients suffering from psychosis and eight suffering from depression were matched with 18 and 15 patients, respectively not suffering a pre-burn psychiatric disorder on gender, age, burn severity, type, depth and location. Patients with a pre-burn psychiatric diagnosis spent significantly longer in hospital, spent more time in care until discharged from outreach and their burn injuries took longer to heal than matched burn injury patients without a pre-existing psychiatric illness. Time in hospital and to wound healing were significantly greater in psychotic patients compared to their controls but not between depressed patients and their matched controls. Both psychotic and depressed patients had significantly more surgery than their matched controls. Patients whose burn was self-inflicted spent significantly longer in hospital and their wounds took longer to heal. Patients with pre-existing psychiatric conditions, especially psychosis, and those with self-inflicted injuries are associated with difficulties in clinical management and higher economic cost yet staff receive very little specialist training in their management.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0305-4179
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
31
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
45-9
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2005
pubmed:articleTitle
The influence of pre-existing psychiatric illness on recovery in burn injury patients: the impact of psychosis and depression.
pubmed:affiliation
Academic Division of Clinical Psychology, University of Manchester, Education and Research Building, Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester M23 9LT, UK. nicholas.tarrier@man.ac.uk
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article