Dadi, Negashu (2017) Assessment of Severity of Burn Pain and Associated Factors among Burn Patients in Yekatit 12 Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2017. Masters thesis, Addis Ababa University.
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Abstract
Background: Burn pain is a complex challenge for all health professionals and the patients. The only way to insure that patients receive quality pain relief is rely on reliable indicator of pain by the patient‟s self-report. Thus assessment of severity of pain and its associated factors are important in treatment plan. Inadequate assessment of burn pain may leads to inadequate pain control, which contributes to the development of chronic pain, psychiatric disorders, such as depression and posttraumatic stress disorder. Objective: To assess severity of burn pain and associated factors among burn patients in yekatit 12 hospital from January 01, 2017 to March 30, 2017. Methods: Hospital based cross sectional study design was conducted. Data was collected by using structured questionnaires from all eligible patients who were admitted to burn unit of Yekatit 12 hospital during the study period. Severity of burn pain was assessed by using numerical, facial and behavioral pain scale measurement tools. Multivariate logistic regression analysis was conducted to identify significant predictors based on p-value less than 0.05 with 95% confidence interval. Results: A total of 62 burn patients were included in the study of which majority of the patients (87.1%) had felt severe pain and 12.9% had felt moderate pain. The independent predictors of severity of burn pain are age groups of ≥15 year old are 0.09 times less likely to feel severe pain than 1-14 years old [AOR=0.090; CI 0.009, 0.883], (P=0.039) patients and patients with total body surface area ≥25% are 7.773 times more likely to feel severe burn pain than those total body surface area <25% [AOR=7.773; CI 1.184, 51.043], (P=0.033). Conclusion and Recommendation: Pediatrics age groups and high percentage total body surface area of are major associated factors of severity of burn pain. Majorities of burn patients had felt severe pain and burn pain was not appropriately treated. Therefore, health care providers were recommended treat burn patient‟s according pain management protocol as mentioned in WHO pain ladder of pain management.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > R Medicine (General) R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine |
| Divisions: | Africana |
| Depositing User: | Emmanuel Ndorimana |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Nov 2018 13:27 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Nov 2018 13:27 |
| URI: | http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/7736 |
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