2021, Number 1
Mental disorders and variables associated to burned patients
Language: Spanish
References: 15
Page: 38-49
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ABSTRACT
Introduction: There are scarce publications about the presence of mental disorders in burnt patients in Cuba.Objective: To determine the presence of mental disorders and variables associated to burned patients.
Methods: A descriptive, cross-sectional study was carried out in the Caumatology and Reconstructive Surgery Service at ¨Vladimir Ilich Lenin” General University Hospital in Holguín, from January, 2017 to December, 2019. The universe were 140 patients and a probabilistic sample was selected of 90 of them. A semi-structured interview, observation, and document revision were used. The studied variables were socio-demographic ones, the burned body site; type of burnt, topography; causal agent; way of production, hospital permanence; report of the physical estate, psychopathologic history, and mental disorders during admission. The results were processed in MedCalc.
Results: Male sex prevailed (53 %), medium age from 47 to 73, white patients (82 %), ninth grade (45 %), single (54 %), urban source (54 %), with children (74 %) and connivance with other people (68 %). Dermo-hypodermic burnt (66 %), accidental by fire (60 %); with burnt body surface ≤15 % (48 %) and localization in critical site (54 %), the “of Care” report, (72 %), a medium of 18 days of permanence; the psychopathologic history (60 %) and adaptation disorders (34 %). 80 % presented mental disorders.
Conclusion: There is a high incidence of mental disorders during admission in burnt patients, scholarship, connivance and psychopathologic history were associated to mental disorders during admission.
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