Amputation trauma due to burns is a conflict wound that is very emotionally disturbing, as is often shown on social media and on the small screen to illustrate war, but there are also unintentional events that occur in adolescents that cause burns due to electric shock. The purpose of this paper is to explain the psychiatric aspects and the role of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry (CLP) in Traumatic Amputation Due to Electrical Burns in Adolescents so that it becomes a consideration in the selection of psychotherapy and therapy for patients. In this case report, an IPWS patient, male, 13 years old, was treated in the Burn Unit, 2nd floor, bed 2. The patient was consulted by a Plastic Surgery colleague at Sanglah Hospital Denpasar. Autoanamnesis data was obtained at the first examination, and the patient followed up during treatment with complaints of feeling sad due to the condition of the wound. The patient complains of sadness and guilt for not obeying his parents' advice not to fly kites in the field, sadness comes and goes, sometimes cries when he remembers and now he feels sad and sorry, he also wants to get well soon and be able to do activities.
Background: Childbirth is a big, happy event for a mother. In post-partum mothers, physical changes and psychological changes can occur. It is reported that 50% to 70% of post-partum mothers experience psychological disorders, such as a mother can feel uncomfortable with body image perception changes, which result in feelings of lack of husband support. Body image perception itself can cause an effect on self-esteem. This study aimed to analyze the relationship between self-esteem and husband's support with body image perception among primiparous mothers after vaginal delivery.Methods: An observational analytic study was conducted among 30 post-vaginal delivery primiparous mothers in independent Delima midwife practice in Denpasar. Data regarding respondents’ characteristics, self-esteem, husband’s support and body image perception were obtained using the Rosenberg self-esteem questionnaire, the Revised Dyadic Adjustment Scale (R-DAS) questionnaire Multidimensional Body-Self Relations Questionnaire Appearance Scales (MBSRQ-AS). The relationship between self-esteem and husband's support with body image perception was analyzed using SPSS version 23 for Windows.Results: The average age of the respondents were 24.73 years old, and most of them were graduated from high school (50%), employed (53.3%) and have no conflict in their marriage (80%), have normal self-esteem (96.6%), didn’t get enough husband’s support (56.7%) and have positive perception regarding the evaluation of physical appearance (96.6%). We found a significant relationship between self-esteem and body image perception (p = 0.001), husband's support and body image perception (p = 0.001) and husband's support and self-esteem (p = 0.010) in post-vaginal delivery primiparous mother in independent Delima midwife practice in Denpasar.Conclusion: Self-esteem, husband's support and body image perception were essentials factors that contributed to post-partum woman mental health stability that should be understood by family and health workers to avoid psychological disorder in post-partum woman.
Many patients with medical disorders, such as meningoencephalitis are evaluated by psychiatrists complaining of sleep problems as one of the symptoms. A 65-years old married male patient who was currently unemployed was interviewed by a psychiatrist in an uncomfortable reclining position. The patient had been hospitalized for 8 days prior to the interview with a history of being unconscious. The patient showed disorganized speech, tried to pull the intravenous line, and hit his wife. The patient said that at this time, he was unable to sleep due to the throbbing headaches, nauseous, and frequent urination at night. Thus, the patient felt uncomfortable, tired, and drowsy in the morning. Those symptoms got worse in the last week. The patient never had sleep problems before. The psychiatric status showed an appropriate appearance, uncomfortable looks, adequate verbal and visual contact, clear consciousness, dysphoric mood and affect which was congruent, logical realist coherent thought process, and a preoccupation of headache. There was no hallucination or illusion, but mixed type insomnia was found. The patient was diagnosed with adjustment disorder with predominant symptoms and sleep disturbances (F43.28).
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