The investigation of the effects of occupation-based intervention on anxiety, depression, and sleep quality of subjects with hand and upper extremity burns: A randomized clinical trial.

AIM: This study aimed to investigate the effects of occupation-based intervention on psychological factors and sleep quality of subjects with hand and upper extremity burns.

METHODS

In this randomized controlled intervention trial, a total of 20 patients were randomly assigned to one of the control group or intervention group. The control group only received traditional rehabilitation. However, the intervention group received traditional rehabilitation and Cognitive Orientation to daily Occupational Performance (CO-OP), respectively (during 18 sessions, 45 min/day in both groups). Occupational therapy sessions were held three times a week for a six-week duration. Occupational performance and satisfaction, anxiety, depression, and sleep quality were measured before the intervention and in weeks 2, 6, and 14 (follow-up) using Canadian Occupational Performance Measure, Beck Anxiety Inventory, Self-rating Depression Scale, and Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, respectively.

FINDINGS: The results of the present study show that there were significant changes in all the studied variables in the two groups. However, these changes (P ≤ 0.05) were not statistically significant between these two groups.

CONCLUSION

The results of this study show that occupation-based interventions are as effective as traditional therapeutic interventions on improving the anxiety, depression, and sleep quality in patients with hand burn injuries.