ArticleInternational wound journal2017
How and why patients self-treat chronic wounds.
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- Digitising wound care: a cost-consequence analysis of the Wound Care Command Centre™ in Australia.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- "It always needs a higher level of care than what I can provide": Practical, ethical, and administrative tensions arising from the integration of wound care services into syringe service programs in Maryland.The International journal on drug policy · 2025Article
- Associations between self-care advice and healing time in patients with venous leg ulcer- a Swedish registry-based study.BMC geriatrics · 2024Article
- Construction of nomogram for wound recurrence in elderly patients with venous leg ulcers.Frontiers in medicine · 2024Article
- Identifying the Barriers to Self-Wound Management in Singapore-A Preliminary Study in the Primary Healthcare Sector.Journal of patient experience · 2024Article
- Factors Influencing Self-Wound Care Adoption in Singaporean Communities: A Cross-Sectional Survey.Journal of patient-centered research and reviews · 2024Article
- How does a chronic wound change a patient's social life? A European survey on social support and social participation.International wound journal · 2023Article
- Healthcare interventions to aid patient self-management of lower limb wounds: A systematic scoping review.International wound journal · 2023Article
- Chronic wounds.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2022Review
- The "self-treatment of wounds for venous leg ulcers checklist" (STOW-V Checklist V1.0): Part 2-The reliability of the Checklist.International wound journal · 2022Article
- The "self-treatment of wounds for venous leg ulcers checklist" (STOW-V Checklist V1.0): Part 1-Development, pilot and refinement of the checklist.International wound journal · 2022Article
- Exposure risk of patients with chronic infectious wounds during the COVID-19 outbreak and its countermeasures.Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research · 2020Observational
- "Wounds Home Alone"-Why and How Venous Leg Ulcer Patients Self-Treat Their Ulcer: A Qualitative Content Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
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Abstract
The aim of this study was to investigate how people self-treat chronic wounds, why they self-treat and the assistance and support that they receive. The increasing emphasis on self-management of chronic conditions, the potential benefits of self-treatment to the health care consumer and competing demands on health care funding are good reasons to investigate self-treatment of chronic wounds as we have little data on this group of individuals. A survey study was conducted in Australia. A non-random sample of 100 participants was recruited. Participants were aged 18 years or older and currently or previously had a chronic wound that they self-treated. All participants completed one survey. Data analysis involved descriptive statistics. The sample was, on average, 64·6 years of age; half was female (n = 50, 50%), and the majority had a lower leg wound (n = 80, 80·0%). The sample scored 33·9/40 on the Generalized Self-efficacy Scale and 68/100 on the Medical Outcomes Social Support Scale. The majority of the 89 participants who used a wound dressing used a product that targeted bacteria (n = 59, 66.3%). The two most commonly selected reasons for self-treating were 'to be independent' (n = 58, 58·0%) and 'to do the treatment at a time that suited' (n = 55, 56·0%). Less than one quarter of participants reported being supervised regularly during the wound episode (n = 22, 22%), and few (n = 6, 6·0%) reported having received education and training to support their self-treatment. Self-treaters of chronic wounds may benefit from standardised education and closer professional supervision to optimise self-treatment practices. Efforts to improve patient satisfaction with professional care are required to promote a shared-care model when self-treating and to optimise patient outcomes.
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