Centre for Mental Health and Society, School of Medical and Health Sciences, Bangor University, Bangor, LL13 7YP, UK.
Division of Psychology and Mental Health, School of Health Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
Syst Rev. 2023 Aug 31;12(1):153. doi: 10.1186/s13643-023-02317-y.
The greatest proportion of burn injuries globally occur in South Asia, where there are also high numbers of intentional burns. Burn injury prevention efforts are hampered by poor surveillance data on injury intent. There is a plethora of local routinely collected data in the research literature from South Asia that could be used for epidemiological purposes, but it is not known whether the definitions and methods of differentiation of injury intent are sufficiently homogenous to allow valid study comparisons.
We will conduct a systematic scoping review to understand terminology and methods used to differentiate injury intent of hospital burn patients in South Asia. The objectives of the study are to: determine the breadth of terminology and common terms used for burn injury intent; to determine if definitions are comparable across studies where the same term is used; and to appraise the rigour of methods used to differentiate burn injury intent and suitability for comparison across studies. The databases Embase, MEDLINE, CINAHL, PsycINFO, and PakMediNet will be searched. Screening and data extraction will be completed independently by two reviewers. To be included, the article must be as follows: peer reviewed, primary research, study cutaneous burns, based on hospital patients from a country in South Asia, and use intent terminology or discuss a method of differentiation of injury intent. Results will be restricted to English language studies. No date restrictions will be applied. A plain language summary and terminology section are included for non-specialist readers.
Results will be used to inform stakeholder work to develop standardised terminology and methods for burn injury intent in South Asia. They will be published open access in peer-reviewed journals wherever possible.
This review has been registered with the Open Science Framework ( https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/DCYNQ ).
全球范围内烧伤伤害最大的比例发生在南亚，那里也有大量的故意烧伤。由于对伤害意图的监测数据较差，烧伤预防工作受到阻碍。南亚的研究文献中有大量的本地常规收集数据可用于流行病学目的，但尚不清楚伤害意图的定义和区分方法是否足够统一，以允许进行有效的研究比较。
我们将进行系统范围的综述，以了解南亚医院烧伤患者区分伤害意图的术语和方法。本研究的目的是：确定用于区分烧伤伤害意图的术语和常用术语的范围；确定在使用相同术语的情况下，定义是否在研究之间具有可比性；并评估用于区分烧伤伤害意图的方法的严谨性以及在研究之间进行比较的适宜性。将检索 Embase、MEDLINE、CINAHL、PsycINFO 和 PakMediNet 数据库。筛选和数据提取将由两名评审员独立完成。要包括在内，文章必须符合以下条件：同行评审、原始研究、研究皮肤烧伤、基于南亚国家的医院患者、使用意图术语或讨论区分伤害意图的方法。结果将仅限于英语语言研究。不会应用日期限制。为非专业读者提供了通俗易懂的摘要和术语部分。
结果将用于为南亚烧伤伤害意图的标准化术语和方法的利益相关者工作提供信息。尽可能在同行评议的期刊上以开放获取的方式发表。
本综述已在开放科学框架（https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/DCYNQ ）上注册。
