[Analysis of the mental state of burn patients with postburn phobic neurosis]

To analyze the mental state of burn patients with postburn neurosis, so as to pave the way for solving the problem.

The clinical symptoms and the mental states of forty-three burn patients with phobic neurosis were analyzed in terms of age, sex, severity of burn injury and methods of burn management in accordance with phobic objects.

(1) Simple phobia and circumstance phobia were mainly found in children, whereas sick phobia and social phobia were in adults. (2) Phobic neurosis happened more often in female, especially those above 12 years old, than in male patients. (3) The burn injury severity was positively correlated with the incidence of phobic neurosis. (4) There was higher incidence of phobic neurosis in patients treated with bandaging than those with exposure method.

It was very important to close burn wound as soon as possible, to correct deformity, to improve dysfunction, to perform cosmesis and plastic surgery and to rebuild patients self-esteem in order to prevent or decrease the incidence of postburn phobic neurosis.