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dc.contributor.authorBrown, Nadia J
dc.contributor.authorRodger, Sylvia
dc.contributor.authorWare, Robert S
dc.contributor.authorKimble, Roy M
dc.contributor.authorCuttle, Leila
dc.date.accessioned2017-10-12T03:37:35Z
dc.date.available2017-10-12T03:37:35Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifier.issn1745-6215
dc.identifier.doi10.1186/1745-6215-13-238
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/348542
dc.description.abstractBackground: 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.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherBioMed Central
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom238-1
dc.relation.ispartofpageto238-11
dc.relation.ispartofjournalTrials
dc.relation.ispartofvolume13
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCardiovascular medicine and haematology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchClinical sciences
dc.subject.fieldofresearchClinical sciences not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3201
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3202
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode320299
dc.titleEfficacy 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.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
dcterms.licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0
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gro.description.notepublicPage 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.
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