Parlak Gürol Ayşe, Polat Sevinç, Akçay Müfide Nuran
Department of Pediatric Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Atatürk University, Erzurum, Turkey.
J Burn Care Res. 2010 May-Jun;31(3):429-32. doi: 10.1097/BCR.0b013e3181db522c.
Burn can be among the most severe physical and psychologic traumas a person may face. Patients with burns commonly have severe itching and pain. Severe itching has also been associated with anxiety, sleep disturbance, and disruption of daily living activities. The addition of complementary treatments to standard care may lead to improved pain management and may offer a safer approach for reducing pain and procedural anxiety for patients with burns. The authors conducted an experimental study to examine whether the effects of massage therapy reduced burned adolescents' pain, itching, and anxiety levels. Sixty-three adolescents were enrolled in this study shortly after admission (mean days = 3 +/- 0.48) at a burn unit in a large university hospital from February 2008 to June 2009. The measures including the pain, itching, and state anxiety were collected on the first and last days of the 5-week study period. The participants had an average age of 14.07 +/- 1.78 years and came usually from the lower socioeconomic strata. The authors observed that massage therapy reduced all these measures from the first to the last day of this study (P < .001). In most cultures, massage treatments are used to alleviate a wide range of symptoms. Although health professionals agree on the use of nonpharmacologic method for patients with burns, these applications are not yet common.
烧伤可能是一个人可能面临的最严重的身体和心理创伤之一。烧伤患者通常会有严重的瘙痒和疼痛。严重的瘙痒还与焦虑、睡眠障碍以及日常生活活动的中断有关。在标准护理中添加辅助治疗可能会改善疼痛管理，并可能为减轻烧伤患者的疼痛和治疗过程中的焦虑提供一种更安全的方法。作者进行了一项实验研究，以检验按摩疗法是否能降低烧伤青少年的疼痛、瘙痒和焦虑水平。2008年2月至2009年6月期间，63名青少年在一家大型大学医院的烧伤科入院后不久（平均天数 = 3 +/- 0.48）就参加了这项研究。在为期5周的研究期的第一天和最后一天收集了包括疼痛、瘙痒和状态焦虑在内的指标。参与者的平均年龄为14.07 +/- 1.78岁，通常来自社会经济较低阶层。作者观察到，在这项研究中，从第一天到最后一天，按摩疗法降低了所有这些指标（P < .001）。在大多数文化中，按摩疗法被用于缓解各种症状。尽管健康专业人员对于烧伤患者使用非药物方法达成了共识，但这些应用尚不普遍。
