Anxiety and self‐consciousness in patients with minor facial lacerations

Tebble, N. J.; Thomas, David W.; Price, Patricia Elaine

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2648.2004.03123.x

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“…Such findings could be interpreted as changes in the patients' internal standards, values and conceptualizations of life over time because of survival of cancer: a 'response shift' (Sprangers 2002). Studies of facially disfigured patients have indicated that the course of injury is related to self-consciousness and anxiety, which supports our findings (Tebble et al 2004(Tebble et al , 2006. Patients with trauma also tend to have a good HRQOL similar to the patients with cancer.…”

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Quality of life of eye amputated patients

Rasmussen

Ekholm

Prause

et al. 2011

Acta Ophthalmologica

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ABSTRACT.Purpose: To evaluate eye-amputated patients' health-related quality of life, perceived stress, self-rated health, job separation because of illness or disability and socioeconomic position. Methods: Patients were recruited from a tertiary referral centre situated in Copenhagen. Inclusion criteria were eye amputation, i.e. evisceration, enucleation, orbital exenteration or secondary implantation of an orbital implant during the period 1996-2003, and participation in a previous investigation (2005). In total, 159 eye-amputated patients were included, and completed a selfadministered questionnaire containing health-related quality of life (SF-36), the perceived stress scale and answered questions about self-rated health, job changes because of illness or disability and socioeconomic status. These results were compared with findings from the Danish Health Interview Survey 2005. Results: The eye-amputated patients had significantly (p < 0.05) lower scores (poorer health) on all SF-36 subscales and more perceived stress compared to the general population. In all, 43.3% of the patients rated their health as excellent or very good compared to 52.1% of the general population. In total, 25% of the study population has retired or changed to a part-time job because of eye disease. The percentage of eye amputated patients, who were divorced or separated, was twice as high as in the general population. Conclusion: The impact of an eye amputation is considerable. The quality of life, perceived stress and self-rated health of many eye-amputated patients are drastically changed. Eye amputation has a marked negative influence on job separation because of illness or disability and on socioeconomic position.

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confidence: 80%

Quality of life of eye amputated patients

Rasmussen

Ekholm

Prause

et al. 2011

Acta Ophthalmologica

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“…27 Psychological research about patients with disfigurement confirm disturbance of the body schema and altercation of the individual's self-representation. 34 Surgical repair of PE can significantly improve the difficulties with body image and limitations on physical activity that are experienced by patients. 20,36,37,43 These results should prompt physicians to consider the physiologic and psychological implications of PE just as they would any other physical deformity known to have such consequences.…”

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confidence: 99%

Current Management of Pectus Excavatum: A Review and Update of Therapy and Treatment Recommendations

Jaroszewski¹,

Notrica²,

McMahon³

et al. 2010

The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine

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Pectus excavatum (PE) is a posterior depression of the sternum and adjacent costal cartilages and is frequently seen by primary care providers. PE accounts for >90% of congenital chest wall deformities. Patients with PE are often dismissed by physicians as having an inconsequential problem; however, it can be more than a cosmetic deformity. Severe cases can cause cardiopulmonary impairment and physiologic limitations. Evidence continues to present that these physiologic impairments may worsen as the patient ages. Data reports improved cardiopulmonary function after repair and marked improvement in psychosocial function. More recent consensus by both the pediatric and thoracic surgical communities validates surgical repair of the significant PE and contradicts arguments that repair is primarily cosmetic. We performed a review of the current literature and treatment recommendations for patients with PE deformities. (J Am Board Fam Med 2010;23:230 -239.)

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“…However, there is no concensus in the literature. [9][10][11][12] Previous research has often assessed scar visibility subjectively and measured psychometric constructs only indirectly associated with psychosocial distress. Furthermore, any measures of objective scar severity used have not been validated and collection of patient-rated subjective severity data often neglected, despite its postulated importance in body image cognition.…”

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confidence: 99%