Psychosocial Screening for Burns Patients

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD); Depression; Anxiety; Adjustment and Quality of Life; Burn Injury; Mental Health - Depression; Mental Health - Anxiety; Injuries and Accidents - Burns

• Registration Number: ACTRN12614000940673
• Lead Sponsor: The NSW Institute of Psychiatry

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2014-09-02
• Last Update Posted: 13 January 2020

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: ot yet recruiting
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 600

Inclusion Criteria

Inclusion criteria is 1) Ability to consent to participate to this screening study and 2) Admission to the Severe Burn Injury at Royal North Shore Hospital with a burn injury. Criteria for admission to a specialist burn unit is as follows:
any intubated patient,
inhalation injuries with cutaneous burns,
head and neck, hand, face or genital burns,
mid-dermal, deep dermal or full thickness burns equal or greater than 20%,
burns with significant co-morbidities,
associated trauma,
circumferential burn to limbs or chest that compromises, circulation or respiration,
all electrical and chemical burn injuries

Exclusion Criteria

Patients younger than 18 years of age and those with issues that impair the ability to give informed consent will be excluded. We are wanting to screen all burns patients admitted to the Severe Burns Injury Unit

Study & Design

• Study Type: Observational
• Study Design: Not specified