Rockwell E, Dimsdale J E, Carroll W, Hansbrough J
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego.
J Burn Care Rehabil. 1988 Jan-Feb;9(1):83-6. doi: 10.1097/00004630-198801000-00021.
The authors studied 51 of 56 consecutive eligible patients admitted to a burn unit. Sixty-nine percent of the patients had a preburn psychiatric diagnosis. Depression alone was present in more than half the sample. Few burns were strictly accidental; 68% involved some degree of complicity on the victim's part, but intentional burns were rare. Patients with depression were more likely to sustain their burns in a setting of risk-enhancing behavior.
作者对一家烧伤科连续收治的56例符合条件的患者中的51例进行了研究。69%的患者在烧伤前被诊断患有精神疾病。样本中仅抑郁症患者就超过半数。很少有烧伤是完全意外的；68%的烧伤在一定程度上与受害者自身因素有关，但故意烧伤很少见。抑郁症患者在存在风险增加行为的情况下更有可能遭受烧伤。
