e6d2ea2fc69c49f9c064baeabc89cbe8 pmc_11843819.pdf ab61d8af0546473600046dcb46b891b133bcb1b3 pmc_11843819.pdf 13534ce9e555c9e235a33d40bd1d373e81352c1f990129e9e432c5f93d574f23 pmc_11843819.pdf Title: Self-Inflicted Burns: A Comparative Study in a Spanish Sample Subject: Background: In 1994, the first Spanish study on patients with self-inflicted burns (SIB) was published, showing a prototypical profile of a patient with SIB: adult male, unmarried and, in 75% of the cases, with a psychiatric background. In addition, SIB accounted for 1.98% of the total admissions in a Burns Unit between 1983 and 1991, a lower percentage than other European studies. The present study aims to replicate this work, updating this profile and comparing it with the current profile. Methods: We compared the clinical and socio-demographic characteristics of 67 patients admitted during 1983–1991 (Study I) with those of 36 patients admitted during 2010–2015 (Study II). Results: It was observed that the percentage of patients with SIB admitted to the Burns Unit was lower in Study II than in Study I (1.45% vs. 1.98%). Significant age differences were identified (t(101) = -2.074, p = 0.041, 95% CI [-11.739, -0.261]). Similarly, there were statistically significant differences in several clinical characteristics, such as psychiatric history (X2 = 11.591, p = 0.001), the occurrence of previous autolytic attempts (X2 = 7.714, p = 0.007), the place where the incident occurred (X2 = 11.647, p = 0.020), the etiology of the burn (X2 = 13.142, p = 0.004), and triggers (X2 = 6.420, p = 0.036). Conclusions: Several differences have arisen between the two studies, mainly related to the specific characteristics of SIB (e.g., etiology, triggering cause, and place of the incident), possibly attributable to the social changes that have occurred in the last 20 years. These results will add to our knowledge and will stress various precipitating factors that may lead to SIB, with the final goal of designing preventive strategies. Keywords: self-inflicted burns; suicide; comparative study Author: Sara Guila Fidel-Kinori, Vicente García-Sánchez, Maria Sonsoles Cepeda-Diez, Carmina Castellano-Tejedor, Josep Antoni Ramos-Quiroga and Joan Pere Barret-Nerín Creator: LaTeX with hyperref Producer: pdfTeX-1.40.25 CreationDate: Mon Feb 17 07:37:49 2025 CET ModDate: Mon Feb 17 07:39:38 2025 CET Custom Metadata: no Metadata Stream: no Tagged: no UserProperties: no Suspects: no Form: none JavaScript: no Pages: 11 Encrypted: no Page size: 595.276 x 841.89 pts (A4) Page rot: 0 File size: 256570 bytes Optimized: no PDF version: 1.7 name type encoding emb sub uni object ID ------------------------------------ ----------------- ---------------- --- --- --- --------- NBDYSG+URWPalladioL-Roma Type 1 Custom yes yes yes 10 0 HLQGTQ+URWPalladioL-Bold Type 1 Custom yes yes yes 16 0 SVUENP+URWPalladioL-Ital Type 1 Custom yes yes yes 21 0 LJEZBI+CMSY10 Type 1 Builtin yes yes yes 26 0 AIRHKL+VnURWPalladioL Type 1 Custom yes yes yes 78 0 Jhove (Rel. 1.28.0, 2023-05-18) Date: 2025-04-03 02:09:40 CEST RepresentationInformation: pmc_11843819.pdf ReportingModule: PDF-hul, Rel. 1.12.4 (2023-03-16) LastModified: 2025-04-02 02:08:11 CEST Size: 256570 Format: PDF Version: 1.7 Status: Well-Formed and valid SignatureMatches: PDF-hul MIMEtype: application/pdf PDFMetadata: Objects: 262 FreeObjects: 1 IncrementalUpdates: 0 DocumentCatalog: PageLayout: SinglePage PageMode: UseNone Outlines: Item: Title: Introduction Destination: section.1 Item: Title: Materials and Methods Destination: section.2 Item: Title: Results Destination: section.3 Item: Title: Discussion Destination: section.4 Item: Title: Conclusions Destination: section.5 Item: Title: References Destination: section.6 Info: Title: Self-Inflicted Burns: A Comparative Study in a Spanish Sample Author: Sara Guila Fidel-Kinori, Vicente García-Sánchez, Maria Sonsoles Cepeda-Diez, Carmina Castellano-Tejedor, Josep Antoni Ramos-Quiroga and Joan Pere Barret-Nerín Subject: Background: In 1994, the first Spanish study on patients with self-inflicted burns (SIB) was published, showing a prototypical profile of a patient with SIB: adult male, unmarried and, in 75% of the cases, with a psychiatric background. In addition, SIB accounted for 1.98% of the total admissions in a Burns Unit between 1983 and 1991, a lower percentage than other European studies. The present study aims to replicate this work, updating this profile and comparing it with the current profile. Methods: We compared the clinical and socio-demographic characteristics of 67 patients admitted during 1983 1991 (Study I) with those of 36 patients admitted during 2010 2015 (Study II). Results: It was observed that the percentage of patients with SIB admitted to the Burns Unit was lower in Study II than in Study I (1.45% vs. 1.98%). Significant age differences were identified (t(101) = -2.074, p = 0.041, 95% CI [-11.739, -0.261]). Similarly, there were statistically significant differences in several clinical characteristics, such as psychiatric history (X2 = 11.591, p = 0.001), the occurrence of previous autolytic attempts (X2 = 7.714, p = 0.007), the place where the incident occurred (X2 = 11.647, p = 0.020), the etiology of the burn (X2 = 13.142, p = 0.004), and triggers (X2 = 6.420, p = 0.036). Conclusions: Several differences have arisen between the two studies, mainly related to the specific characteristics of SIB (e.g., etiology, triggering cause, and place of the incident), possibly attributable to the social changes that have occurred in the last 20 years. These results will add to our knowledge and will stress various precipitating factors that may lead to SIB, with the final goal of designing preventive strategies. 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