Investigating the psychosocial empowerment interventions through multimedia education in burnt patients

Background and Aim : Patients with burns often encounter a lot of psychological problems that can affect all parts of Life. Therefore, this study was conducted to investigate the psycho social empowerment interventions through multimedia education in burnt patients. Methods : This research is a randomized clinical trial study with a control group that was administered in the Shahid Motahari Burn Center in Tehran in 2016. To this end, 50 patients were randomly selected for the control group and 50 patients were selected for the intervention group. As the instruments of the current study, demographic characteristics questionnaire and the quality of life questionnaire (BSHS-B) was used. Patients in the control group received only routine educational self-care but the intervention group, received routine cares as well as the multimedia trainings. Then, the psychological quality of life was evaluated in both group before the interventions and after three and six months of interventions. The results were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics in SPSS, version 21, software. Results : The findings indicated that before interventions, the mean of mental dimension in intervention and control group were 2.08 ± 0.59, 1.64 ± 0.47 respectively, which were statistically significant (p <0.001). Three and six months after the intervention, the mean and standard deviation of interventions of control groups were 3.37 ± 0.93, 2.24 ± 0.4, 4.11 ± 0.74, 2.75 ± 0.58 respectively, which were statistically significant (p <0.001). Conclusion : The results of this study indicated that the multimedia intervention has been effective in empowering the psychology of burnt patients. Therefore, it was recommended that the curative staff use this educational method to help these patients.

Keywords:

psychological empowerment , multimedia education , burn