Trauma impacts people's coping mechanisms with their ability to function posing risks to
their capacity to manage and respond appropriately to stressors, and to recover. Trauma …

Aims To identify the challenges facing burn care nurses and burn patients' family members
and to explore the relationship between the above challenges. Design Whittemore and …

Introduction: Burn injuries can be traumatic and distressing for the affected child and family,
with a prolonged period of recovery. This research explores parents' experiences of support …

Living with a visible difference (eg, disfigurement) can compromise a child's psychological
wellbeing. Although some children can adjust well, others can develop a range of …

Background: Scars affect patients after trauma, burns, or surgical procedures and can
generate both physical and psychosocial changes. The aesthetic damage represents the …

Abstract Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) identify vital information about
patient needs and therapeutic progress. This paper outlines the development and validation …

Adult-acquired burn injuries are a life-altering event that can lead to debilitating functional or
psychological impairments. With advancements in health care resulting in decreased …

Many children and young people struggle adjusting to the psychosocial consequences (eg,
body dissatisfaction, social anxiety, and stigmatisation) of visible differences (or …

Aim After the discharge of patients with burns, quality of life, psychological and social
adjustment, performance and their follow‐up are ambiguous. Therefore, we decided to …

Background: Nurses form the largest group of burn care treatment team. They have valuable
experiences regarding the care of burned patients that needs to be explored. Therefore, the …