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Relationship Between Post Burn Patients Characteristics and Patient's

Quality of Life Based on A Specific Health Scale Brief (BSHS-B)
In H. Adam Malik Hospital
Hasibuan HD*, Tarigan Utama**, Buchari Frank**
*Resident of Surgery Department University of North Sumatera medical colleges
**Consultant of Plastic and Reconstruction Surgery Divison of University of North Sumatera
medical colleges

Background
In Indonesia approximately 2.5 milion people suffer burn
every year. He prevalence of burns in 2003 in Indonesia
is 0,7% and has decreased by 1,5 compared to 2008
(2.2%) with the highest prevalence in NAD and Riau
Iskands (3,8%). Quality of life has been proposed as an
important index for evaluating personal health, deciding
and assessing the overall health of the community and
finding the main problems of various aspects of the lives of individuals, especially patients with chronic medical
conditions. Burn Specific Health Scale-Brief (BSHS-B) is a scale that has been established to measure recovery
after burn injury.
Methods
It is an analytical research with cross sectional design.
Samples were obtained from burn patients who had been
treated during a periode January 2011 to December 2015.
Obtained 50 burn patients, it’s characteristics consist of
age, gender, percent total nody surface area, and long of
hospital stay. Patients willing to fill in BSHS-B
questionnaires were included in the study.

Results
From this study found that the average age of the study subjects was
33.66 years, with the youngest age 18 years and the oldest 61 years.
The mean values (mean ± SD) for each of the BSHS-B assessment
variables were the length of hospital stay (15.96 ± 7.70 days) and
percent total body surface area (14.8 ± 4.92%). Number of burns
patients of male sex as much as 29 (58%) subject and female as much
as 21 (42%) subject. In this study found the age group 25-44 years is
the most age group suffered burns as many as 32 (64%) patients.
Burns <20% were burned by 44 (88%), with 39 days (39%). ).
There was a significant correlation between percent total body
surface area and quality of life based on BSHS-B seen from p <0,05
(p = 0,021), because from total 50 patient, 44 (88%) suffer from burn
≤20% and 27 (61,4%) sufferers of which have poor quality of life
based on BSHS-B

Discussion
Based on the results of analysis it is
known that there is a significant
relationship between percent total body
surface area with quality of life based on
BSHS-B. This is in accordance with
research conducted by Elsherbiny et al.
(2010), where argue that the wider
percentage of burns (> 40%) in full thickness injury will increase the patient's inability to perform the function.

Conclusion
There was a significant correlation between percent total body surface area and patient’s quality of life based on
BSHS-B seen from p value = 0,021 in H. Adam Malik Hospital. There was no correlation between length of
hospital stay (p = 0,259), gender (p = 0,806), and age (p = 0,956) with patient’s quality of life based on BSHS-B
in H Adam Malik Hospital.

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