[Impact of anxiety-depression symptoms on clinical recovery and serum TNF-alpha and IL-6 of patients with burns].

Objective: To investigate the impact of anxiety-depression symptoms on the healing of burn wounds and the serum tumor necrosis factor a (TNF-alpha) and interleukin-6 (IL-6) in the patients with moderate and severe burns.

Methods: The patients with moderate and severe burns were divided into anxiety-depression group (24 patients) and non-anxiety-depression group (27 patients)according to the scores of anxiety-depression scores three days after burn measured by Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HAMD) and Hamilton Rating Scale for Anxiety (HAMA). The routine therapy was applied for both groups for 30 days.