Citation

Rockwell E, Dimsdale JE, Carroll W, Hansbrough J. J. Burn Care Rehabil. 1988; 9(1): 83-86.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1988, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

3356746

Abstract

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.

Language: en