Pain Management in Severely Burned Adults: A Test of Stress Inoculation

• Main Author: Wernick, Robert L.
• Other Authors: Butler, Joel R.
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: North Texas State University 1980
• Subjects: pain therapy; pain and anxiety; burn victims; stress inoculation training; Pain > Psychological aspects.; Burns and scalds > Psychological aspects.; Behavior therapy.
• Online Access: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc332360/

The present investigation sought to explore the efficacy of stress inoculation in the management of pain with severely burned adults. Subjects were 16 adult burn patients randomly assigned to either the stress-inoculation or no-treatment comparison group. The focus of the analysis was the amount of change or improvement from pretreatment to posttreatment periods. The stress-inoculation group showed significant improvement on all nine dependent measures, while the no-treatment group improved significantly on only two (physical and emotional self-ratings). The overall comparison of the amount of change between groups revealed that the stress-inoculation group showed significantly greater improvement in pain management than the no-treatment group during this time. It was concluded that stress inoculation, as a flexible treatment package, was efficacious in the management of pain experience of burn patients.