Comparing the effect of muscle relaxation and mental imagery on severity and anxiety of pain in patients with second degree burn wounds.
- Conditions
- Burn.Burn of second degree, body region unspecified
- Registration Number
- IRCT201512194443N20
- Lead Sponsor
- Vice chancellor for research, Tehran University of Medical Scinces
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- Male
- Target Recruitment
- 135
patients should be male; patients have 2nd degree burn wounds; patients have full consciousness and be able to cooperate; patients have 20 to 45 years of age; patients have unintentional and non-inhalation burns; patients have 60-40% of their body surface area burned; patients be in the acute phase of burn (first 48 hours after burn); patients have no underlying disease (neurological disorders and numbness in the extremities, mental disorders such as; Alzheimer or memory disorders, muscle diseases, electrolyte disorders including; hyponatremia and hypocalcemia) ; patients have no known morbid anxiety problems.
Exclusion criteria: Not cooperating until the end of the intervention; treatment duration more than a month in the control group patients; the use of neuromuscular blocking agents( baclofen, dantrolene, etc.); excessive use of morphine and tranquillizers before entering the dressing room(morphine is injected by patient weight and at intervals of 4-6hours, otherwise, the patient will be removed from the sample), the need for EE?G surgery ( Early Excision Graft ), scartomy or fasciotomy in the severe burns phase.
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Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Pain severity. Timepoint: Before and after dressing in the first and second days of the burn (acute phase of burn). Method of measurement: Visual Analogue Scale (VAS).
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Pain anxiety. Timepoint: Before and after dressing in the first and second days of the burn (acute phase of burn). Method of measurement: Burn Specific Pain Anxiety Scale (BSPAS).