Gender differences in variables associated with psychosocial adjustment to a burn injury

Brown, Barbara; Roberts, Jacqueline; Browne, Gina; Byrne, Carolyn; Love, Barbara; Streiner, David L.

doi:10.1002/nur.4770110105

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“…2 Females and males seemed to be equally well adjusted psychologically which is consistent with the literature. 5 In addition, the family members reported more total problems and more externalizing problems than did the subjects. This too is consistent with the reports of others with similar scales.…”

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Differences in Behavioral Perceptions Between Young Adult Burn Survivors and Cross-Informants

Russell

Hölzer

Robert

et al. 2008

Journal of Burn Care & Research

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The purpose of this study is to gain insight into the level of agreement, in terms of personal problems, between burn survivors and an informant with whom they have a close personal relationship. Participants in the study were 72 young adult burn survivors between the ages of 18 and 28 with a mean age of 20.9 +/- 2.6 years. There were 37 males and 35 females in the group. The mean total burn surface area was 55.34 +/- 19.9% with injuries occurring before the age of 18, a minimum of 2 years prior to the study with a mean of 14.3 +/- 4.9 years since burned. To assess this issue the participants completed The Young Adult Self-Report (YASR), and the informants completed The Young Adult Behavior Checklist (YABCL). In relationship to burn survivors, the informant group comprised 67% mothers, 3% fathers, and 30% domestic partners. Paired t-test and Pearson Correlations Coefficients were calculated to compare the differences and variance of the Total Problems Scale, Internalizing Scale and Externalizing Scale for the YABCL and YASR results. The family members of burn survivors reported more problems for their young adult relatives than did the informants of the reference population. In general, the YACBL scores were higher than and highly correlated to the YASR scores. Although there were not ethic differences in the YABCL and the YASR measures, the correlation between the YABCL and the YASR was excellent for Caucasian families but not good for Black and Hispanic families. This study supports concerns about the need for routine follow-up into adulthood for those individuals who were burned as children. This would seem to be especially critical for the female population.

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Differences in Behavioral Perceptions Between Young Adult Burn Survivors and Cross-Informants

Russell

Hölzer

Robert

et al. 2008

Journal of Burn Care & Research

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“…In keeping with adult studies [ 29 ], Pope et al also found that female burn-injured adolescents expressed more negative evaluations of how others saw their appearance than burn-injured males ( p = 0.012), but overall, burn-injured adolescents reported more positive—if not statistically significant—feelings about their appearance than the controls [ 27 ]. Brown et al however found no difference between the sexes in terms of psychosocial adjustment [ 30 ].…”

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Body image in paediatric burns: a review

King

2018

Burns &Amp; Trauma

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Burn injuries in children can result in life-long disfigurement. As medical and surgical techniques of burn management improve survival prospects more than ever before, body image adjustment is increasingly a central consideration in the care of burn-injured individuals. An appreciation that both physiological and psychosocial processes underpin such injuries is key to understanding wound healing. Perceptions of idealized body images in Western society challenge children and their families as they grow up with and adapt to disfigurement from burns. Whilst many studies have examined the psychosocial recovery of adults with burn injuries, few have considered the impact on burn-injured children. This paper explores the models of body image and discusses the relevance of these to research and practice in understanding how to manage burns in children.

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“…Wohltmann et al's study (1999) suggests that males who were younger than 50 years old had increased mortality rates compared with females of the same age. Brown et al (1988) compared male and female patients who were burned, on their functional disability, disfigurement, coping responses, social resources and psychosocial adjustment to a burn injury. Brown et al's study (1988) showed that less functional disability for men and greater problem solving for women were the most important variables in explaining psychosocial adjustment to a burn injury.…”

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Gender differences in the quality of life and coping patterns after discharge in patients recovering from burns in China

Wang

Pertrini

Xin

2010

Journal of Research in Nursing

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The purpose of this study was to investigate gender differences in quality of life and coping patterns after discharge for patients with burns in China. Cross-sectional survey research design and purposive sampling were used in this study, for which 92 subjects, including 56 males and 36 females, were recruited from a medical centre in central China. Quality of life was measured by the burn-specific health scale-brief (BSHS-B) and coping patterns were measured with the coping with burns questionnaire (CBQ), while demographic data was collected using a demographic questionnaire. An independent t-test and bivariate correlate were employed to analyse the data. The study results showed significant differences in quality of life between genders and coping patterns. There was a statistically significant gender difference in the sub-domain of the BSHS-B score for affect and relations, p < 0.05, and for coping patterns: emotion support, p < 0.05. The findings indicated that optimism/problem solving, revolution/ adjustment and avoidance were the most commonly used coping patterns for males and females. The rank orders were same. The study indicated that women are more sensitive to relationships with family after discharge and tend to exhibit depressive symptoms. For women, emotional support is more important than it is for men. A number of significant positive and negative correlations were found among the variables.

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Gender differences in variables associated with psychosocial adjustment to a burn injury

Cited by 23 publications

References 19 publications

Differences in Behavioral Perceptions Between Young Adult Burn Survivors and Cross-Informants

Differences in Behavioral Perceptions Between Young Adult Burn Survivors and Cross-Informants

Body image in paediatric burns: a review

Gender differences in the quality of life and coping patterns after discharge in patients recovering from burns in China

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