ArticleQuality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation2021
Individual recovery of health-related quality of life during 18 months post-burn using a retrospective pre-burn measurement: an exploratory study.
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- Quality of Life in Burn Survivors Post-Discharge: A Narrative Review.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2026Review
- Quality of Life, PTSD, and Insomnia in Patients with Burn Injuries.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2026Article
- Patient-Reported Pain and Itch Scores After a Course of Laser Therapy for the Treatment of Postburn Hypertrophic Scar Are Impacted by Mental Health Status.Journal of burn care & research : official publication of the American Burn Association · 2025Article
- Post-Burn Quality of Life, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and Insomnia: A Six-Month Follow-Up Study.Cureus · 2025Article
- Optimizing burn wound procedural pain control, efficiency, and satisfaction through integrated nurse and physician education.Burns : journal of the International Society for Burn Injuries · 2024Review
- Scars.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2023Review
- Post-Burn Psychosocial Outcomes in Pediatric Minority Patients in the United States: An Observational Cohort Burn Model System Study.European burn journal · 2023Article
- Quality-Adjusted Life Years in Erythropoietic Protoporphyria and Other Rare Diseases: A Patient-Initiated EQ-5D Feasibility Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Posttraumatic stress symptoms and interpersonal processes in burn survivors and their partners.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2022Article
- Assessing Health-Related Quality of Life of Adult Patients with Intermediate Burns: The Added Value of an Itching and Cognition Item for the EQ-5D: A Retrospective Observational Study.European burn journal · 2022Article
- Pre-Burn Health-Related Quality of Life: Patient and Partner Perspectives.European burn journal · 2022Article
- Researches on cognitive sequelae of burn injury: Current status and advances.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Review
- Prevalence and course of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms in partners of burn survivors.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2021Article
- Bio-Psychological Predictors of Acute and Protracted Fatigue After Burns: A Longitudinal Study.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
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purposeThis study explored the individual trajectories of health-related quality of life (HRQL) compared to recalled pre-burn level of HRQL and investigated whether burn severity and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms increase the risk of not returning to pre-burn level of HRQL.
methodsData were obtained from 309 adult patients with burns in a multicenter study. Patients completed the EQ-5D-3L questionnaire with a Cognition bolt-on shortly after hospital admission, which included a recalled pre-injury measure, and, again, at 3, 6, 12 and 18 months post-burn. Burn severity was indicated by the number of surgeries, and PTSD symptoms were assessed with the IES-R at three months post-burn. Pre- and post-injury HRQL were compared to norm populations.
resultsRecalled pre-injury HRQL was higher than population norms and HRQL at 18 months post-burn was comparable to population norms. Compared to the pre-injury level of functioning, four HRQL patterns of change over time were established: Stable, Recovery, Deterioration, and Growth. In each HRQL domain, a subset of patients did not return to their recalled pre-injury levels, especially with regard to Pain, Anxiety/Depression, and Cognition. Patients with more severe burns or PTSD symptoms were less likely to return to pre-injury level of functioning within 18 months post-burn.
conclusionThis study identified four patterns of individual change. Patients with more severe injuries and PTSD symptoms were more at risk of not returning to their recalled pre-injury HRQL. This study supports the face validity of using a recalled pre-burn HRQL score as a reference point to monitor HRQL after burns.
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