title: Social Support and Resilience Among Patients with Burn Injury in Lahore, Pakistan.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Social support and ego resiliency play a great role in maintaining the physical and mental health of patients with burn injuries. The present study has been designed to compare ego resiliency levels and the degree of social support in patients with a burn injury and their healthy counterparts.
  
  
  METHODS
  This study was conducted in two teaching hospitals in Lahore, Pakistan from May 2015 to July 2015. A total of 80 burn patients presenting in outpatient departments of general surgery, plastic surgery, and burn centers of these hospitals were surveyed conveniently, and for comparison, 80 patients presenting in outpatient departments with minor ailments, for routine checkups or follow-ups were recruited. The questionnaire comprised three sections: demographics, the Urdu versions of the Ego Resiliency Scale (ER-89), and the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS). All data were analyzed in SPSS v. 20 (IBM Corp., Armonk, NY).
  
  
  RESULTS
  Patients with a burn injury were associated with lower scores on the social support scale as well as its subscales assessing support from the significant other, family and friends than their healthy counterparts. However, no significant differences in scores on the ego resiliency scale were reported between these two groups.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Patients with a burn injury perceived low social support levels from society, which negatively affects their health outcomes. However, their resilience levels were not significantly different from their healthy counterparts.
authors.affiliation: Final Year MBBS Student, CMH Lahore Medical College and Institute of Dentistry.
authors.forename: Ahmed
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Waqas
authors.affiliation: Psychiatry, KVC Prairie Ridge Hospital.
authors.forename: Sadiq
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Naveed
authors.affiliation: School of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
authors.forename: Mariam M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Bhuiyan
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, FMH College of Medicine and Dentistry, Lahore, Pakistan.
authors.forename: Jawad
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Usman
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, CMH Lahore Medical College and Institute of Dentistry.
authors.forename: Ahmed
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Inam-Ul-Haq
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, CMH Lahore Medical College and Institute of Dentistry.
authors.forename: Sara S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Cheema
keywords: burns; ego resiliency scale; multidimensional scale of perceived social support; pakistan; resilience; social support