Using Pressure Garment versus Hospital Routine Care on Reducing Scars Immediately after Burn Surgery

Inshrah Roshdy Mohammed¹ and Nagat Farouk Abolwafa^2,

¹Medical Surgical Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Minia University

²Pediatric Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Minia University

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Inshrah Roshdy Mohammed and Nagat Farouk Abolwafa. Using Pressure Garment versus Hospital Routine Care on Reducing Scars Immediately after Burn Surgery. American Journal of Nursing Research. 2019; 7(3):269-277. doi: 10.12691/AJNR-7-3-6

Abstract

Background: Abnormal scar advancement resulting from burn injury in children has basic impact on adolescents' children physical and mental working as well as health- related costs for both family and the health care benefit. The study aims: to evaluate using of pressure garment versus hospital routine care on reducing scars immediately after burn surgery. Research design: quasi-experimental research design was utilized within the current study. Subjects: purposive sample including (40) male and female adolescents' children and early adult hood were included within the current study and divided into two groups study (20) and control (20). Setting: the study was carried out at Minia General Hospital in burn inpatient department. Tool of data collection: one tool was used to gather information has divided into two parts: First part: developed by researchers to assess adolescent children and early adulthood biosociodemographic characteristic as (age, sex…. ect.). Second part: The Patient and Observer Scar Assessment Scale (POSAS) scare assessment scale consists of 2 subscales: (the patient and observer scar assessment scale). Results: observable decreasing of burn scars among study group after applying pressure garment immediately post burn surgery during follow up (within 3, 6 and 9 months). Conclusion: utilizing of pressure garment was an effective method in reducing burn scar among adolescents' children and early adulthood immediately after burn surgery. Recommendations: training programs for nurses in burn units overhauled with the evidence-based practices and recent strategies for decreasing burn scar which has huge results on adolescents' children physically and mentally.

Keywords

pressure garment, burn surgery, scars

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