dc.contributor.author | Brown, Nadia J | |
dc.contributor.author | Rodger, Sylvia | |
dc.contributor.author | Ware, Robert S | |
dc.contributor.author | Kimble, Roy M | |
dc.contributor.author | Cuttle, Leila | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-10-12T03:37:35Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-10-12T03:37:35Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2012 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1745-6215 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1186/1745-6215-13-238 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10072/348542 | |
dc.description.abstract | Background: The intense pain and anxiety triggered by burns and their associated wound care procedures are
well established in the literature. Non-pharmacological intervention is a critical component of total pain
management protocols and is used as an adjunct to pharmacological analgesia. An example is virtual reality, which
has been used effectively to dampen pain intensity and unpleasantness. Possible links or causal relationships
between pain/anxiety/stress and burn wound healing have previously not been investigated. The purpose of this
study is to investigate these relationships, specifically by determining if a newly developed multi-modal procedural
preparation and distraction device (Ditto™) used during acute burn wound care procedures will reduce the pain
and anxiety of a child and increase the rate of re-epithelialization.
Methods/design: Children (4 to 12 years) with acute burn injuries presenting for their first dressing change will be
randomly assigned to either the (1) Control group (standard distraction) or (2) Ditto™ intervention group (receiving
Ditto™, procedural preparation and Ditto™ distraction). It is intended that a minimum of 29 participants will be
recruited for each treatment group. Repeated measures of pain intensity, anxiety, stress and healing will be taken at
every dressing change until complete wound re-epithelialization. Further data collection will aid in determining
patient satisfaction and cost effectiveness of the Ditto™ intervention, as well as its effect on speed of wound
re-epithelialization.
Discussion: Results of this study will provide data on whether the disease process can be altered by reducing
stress, pain and anxiety in the context of acute burn wounds. | |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Yes | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | BioMed Central | |
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom | 238-1 | |
dc.relation.ispartofpageto | 238-11 | |
dc.relation.ispartofjournal | Trials | |
dc.relation.ispartofvolume | 13 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Cardiovascular medicine and haematology | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Clinical sciences | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Clinical sciences not elsewhere classified | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 3201 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 3202 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 320299 | |
dc.title | Efficacy of a children's procedural preparation and distraction device on healing in acute burn wound care procedures: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
dc.type.description | C1 - Articles | |
dc.type.code | C - Journal Articles | |
dcterms.license | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 | |
dc.description.version | Version of Record (VoR) | |
gro.description.notepublic | Page numbers are not for citation purposes. Instead, this article has the unique article number of 238. | |
gro.rights.copyright | © Brown et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2012. This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | |
gro.hasfulltext | Full Text | |
gro.griffith.author | Ware, Robert | |