Assessment Of Severity Of Burn Pain And Associated Factors Among Burn Patients In Yekatit 12 Hospital

Background: Burn pain is a complex challenge for all health professionals and the patients. Thernonly way to insure that patients receive quality pain relief is rely on reliable indicator of pain byrnthe patient‟s self-report. Thus assessment of severity of pain and its associated factors arernimportant in treatment plan. Inadequate assessment of burn pain may leads to inadequate painrncontrol, which contributes to the development of chronic pain, psychiatric disorders, such asrndepression and posttraumatic stress disorder.rnObjective: To assess severity of burn pain and associated factors among burn patients in yekatitrn12 hospital from January 01, 2017 to March 30, 2017.rnMethods: Hospital based cross sectional study design was conducted. Data was collected byrnusing structured questionnaires from all eligible patients who were admitted to burn unit ofrnYekatit 12 hospital during the study period. Severity of burn pain was assessed by usingrnnumerical, facial and behavioral pain scale measurement tools. Multivariate logistic regressionrnanalysis was conducted to identify significant predictors based on p-value less than 0.05 withrn95% confidence interval.rnResults: A total of 62 burn patients were included in the study of which majority of the patientsrn(87.1%) had felt severe pain and 12.9% had felt moderate pain. The independent predictors ofrnseverity of burn pain are age groups of ≥15 year old are 0.09 times less likely to feel severe painrnthan 1-14 years old [AOR=0.090; CI 0.009, 0.883], (P=0.039) patients and patients with totalrnbody surface area ≥25% are 7.773 times more likely to feel severe burn pain than those totalrnbody surface area

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