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A burn is not only an injury on the outside: it also involves great mental stress, which impacts healing.
Even though few people suffer burns in Sweden, about 16 per 10,000 inhabitants, burn treatment occupies a unique position in health care. First, a major burn is one of the worst injuries a person can suffer and still survive. Second, burns require long, difficult, and expensive treatment.
"We found that not only the size of the injury, but also the patient’s personality and how the individual copes with the event can affect the occurrence of itching and nightmares after the injury."
The occurrence of frequent nightmares often was clearly related to chronic stress, which means that the occurrence of nightmares can be used as a so-called screening question for stress following injury.
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