Publications by authors named "Leen Braem"
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- Pruritus is a fancy word for itching, and it's common after someone gets burned.
- The study looked at how bad the itching was for patients with different types of burns (grafted and non-grafted) over 18 months.
- Results showed that while both groups had similar itching in the hospital, grafted patients had worse itching than non-grafted patients after 3 months, but this difference disappeared after a year.
Sustaining burns is considered a stressful life event that has the power to elicit depressive symptoms. This study aimed to identify predictors of depressive symptoms by investigating the role of demographic variables, the number of operations (burn severity), neuroticism, and cognitive emotion regulation styles as possible influencing factors. Data from 242 patients with burns were analyzed employing latent growth modeling.
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