Fernández-Vega BFL, Puebla FI, Carrillo VL

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ABSTRACT

Burns are traumatic injuries produced in a brusque way; the patients do not have time to be prepared as it occurs with the ¨elective¨ hospitalization. The present work has like a main objective to identify the more frequent psychological alterations of the patients hospitalized with burns, for this purpose it was performed a descriptive study of 62 hospitalized patients in the service of burned at Carlos M. de Cespedes Hospital in Bayamo, Granma, in the years 2012 and 2013. It was made a table with the variables: antecedents, age, sex, prognosis, cause of the injury, treatment received, as well as the psychological demonstrations suffered and referred by the patients in the evaluations performed by psychologists and psychiatrists in the cases required along with the different therapeutic ways applied. They most frequent was the combination of several psychological alterations (anxiety, fear, depression, irritability, etc.) with 27.4%. However in 51.6 % there were not comments on the emotional demonstrations, as well as the absence of assessment in some of the hospitalized patients. The greatest group of patients was under 15 years; the feminine sex prevailed, with predominance of more than a psychological alteration, with accidental injures and no psychiatric antecedents. A big amount of patients did not receive any kind of treatment.

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