Dressing-related pain in patients with chronic wounds: an international patient perspective
| Autor: | Kevin Y. Woo, Gary Sibbald, Salla Seppänen, Hilde Fagervik-Morton, Hilde Beele, Thomas E Serena, Elizabeth Joan Mudge, Uwe Wollina, José Verdú Soriano, Britta Melby-Østergaard, Yolanda Peter, Wendy White, Christina Lindholm, Theis Huldt Nystrøm, Keith G Harding, Jose Contreras Ruiz, Marco Romanelli, Sylvie Maume, Patricia Elaine Price, Carolyn Wyndham-White |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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Chronic wound
Adult Male medicine.medical_specialty Activities of daily living Cross-sectional study Visual analogue scale Pain Dermatology Dressing change Patient experience medicine Humans In patient Aged Pain Measurement Aged 80 and over business.industry Chronic wound pain Original Articles Middle Aged medicine.disease Bandages Health Surveys Cross-Sectional Studies Debridement Chronic Disease Physical therapy Wounds and Injuries Surgery Female medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | Int Wound J |
| ISSN: | 1742-481X |
| Popis: | This cross-sectional international survey assessed patients' perceptions of their wound pain. A total of 2018 patients (57% female) from 15 different countries with a mean age of 68.6 years (SD = 15.4) participated. The wounds were categorised into ten different types with a mean wound duration of 19.6 months (SD = 51.8). For 2018 patients, 3361 dressings/compression systems were being used, with antimicrobials being reported most frequently (n= 605). Frequency of wound-related pain was reported as 32.2%, 'never' or 'rarely', 31.1%, 'quite often' and 36.6%, 'most' or 'all of the time', with venous and arterial ulcers associated with more frequent pain (P= 0.002). All patients reported that 'the wound itself' was the most painful location (n= 1840). When asked if they experienced dressing-related pain, 286 (14.7%) replied 'most of the time' and 334 (17.2%) reported pain 'all of the time'; venous, mixed and arterial ulcers were associated with more frequent pain at dressing change (P < 0.001). Eight hundred and twelve (40.2%) patients reported that it took |
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