Post-traumatic stress, pain and anxiety in adult burn victims.
This article describes the relationship between post-traumatic morbidity, anxious anticipation of pain and pain perception in 33 adult burn patients. Burn patients were assessed, on average, 7 days after admission to the hospital. Five times a day nurses asked the patients to provide pain ratings. The more patients suffered from post-traumatic stress, the more their anxiety state was elevated. The association between post-traumatic stress and pain perception was, controlling for the effects of anxious anticipation, spurious.
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Burn Center, Zuiderziekenhuis, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology*; D002053:Burn Units; D002056:Burns / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015601:Injury Severity Score; D008297:Male; D009426:Netherlands; D010146:Pain / Q000523:psychology*; D010147:Pain Measurement / Q000523:psychology; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012044:Regression Analysis; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000523:psychology*