Investigation of life quality of severe burn patients at rehabilitation stage and analysis of the related influential factors / 中华烧伤杂志

ABSTRACT

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To investigate the life quality in severe burn patients at rehabilitation stage and analysis of related influential factors.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>Social support rating scale, general quality of life inventory and retrospective investigation were used to evaluate the life quality of 96 severe burn patients (E group, age over 16 years) at rehabilitation stage,and 96 healthy people were enrolled into our study as control (C group). The relationship between the life quality and sex, age, education background, occupation, post burn time, burn causes, burn depth, total burn surface area, length of hospitalization, medical cost, return to work was respectively analyzed.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>There was obvious difference in total score of the life quality between two groups (53 +/- 12 in E group vs. 63 +/- 10 in C group, P < 0.01). There were no obvious difference in life quality among patients with different sex, age, education, burn causes, length of hospitalization and medical expenditure( P > 0.05). The score of social function dimension and material function dimension in married patients were higher than that in singles. The life quality had positive correlation with social support score, return to work, post burn time, and occupation. There were negative correlation between deep burn area and life quality.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>The life quality level of severe burn patients at rehabilitation stage is low. Social support, return to work, duration after burn, occupation and deep burn area are correlating factors affecting life quality. Rehabilitation;</p>