• Sahar Zakeri, Vida Shafipour, Yazdani CharatiJamshidJDepartment of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Health Sciences Research Center, Addiction Institute, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran., Fahimeh Ghasemi Charati, and Hedayat Jafari.
• Nasibeh Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Sari, Iran.
• Burns. 2021 Dec 1; 47 (8): 1906-1911.

BackgroundOne of the results of burn injuries is the appearance of scars and deformities in various organs of the body, which can cause many physical and psychological challenges to burn patients. Lack of proper communication between nurse and patient leads to inaccurate identification of psychological and social needs of these patients and thus affects the quality of care.AimThis study aimed to investigate the effect of seeing the patient's pre-burn face photo on the quality of care and empathy of nurses with patients admitted to the burn intensive care unit.MethodsThe present study is a quasi-experimental interventional study conducted on 26 Burn Intensive Care Unit (BICU) nurses who were selected by census sampling method in 2018. Data were collected through QUALPAC Nursing Care Quality Questionnaire, Lumonica Empathy Questionnaire and Demographic Questionnaire, which were completed by nurses before and after the intervention. Pre-burn photos of patients with facial burns were displayed at the nursing station for one month and the data were compared before and after the intervention. Descriptive statistics and paired t-test and independent t-test, Mann-Whitney and Pearson correlation tests were used to analyze the data.FindingsThe results of present study showed that there was a statistically significant difference between the quality of nursing care (p = 0.001) and its psychological dimension (p < 0.001) before and after the intervention in the group of nurses. However, no significant relationship was found between nurses' empathy with patients before (p = 0.901) and after intervention (p = 0.001).ConclusionSeeing the photo of the patient's pre-burn face and establishing a relationship between the nurse and the patient had an effect on the quality of nursing care and especially its psychological dimension. However, in order to generalize the results and implement this low-cost, convenient and low-complication intervention for all patients admitted to the intensive care unit, more studies are needed in this field.Copyright © 2021 Elsevier Ltd and ISBI. All rights reserved.

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