Effects of early rehabilitation in improvement of paediatric burnt hands function

Table 1 Demographic and medical characteristics of the population

Groups	Within 1 mo	More than 1 mo	P value
Number of patients	26	26
Sex			0.548
Male (n)	19	17
Female (n)	7	9
Age at injury, mean ± SD (yr)	5.35 ± 4.32	5.46 ± 4.33	0.924
Hand injury			0.105
Palm of hand	7	3
Dorsum of hand	2	0
Palm and dorsum of hand	17	23
Etiology (n)			0.188
Scald	9	8
Fire/flame	5	10
Electricity	3	0
Plastic surgery	9	8
Length of stay, mean ± SD (d)	47.65 ± 44.95	27.50 ± 24.75	0.051
Rehabilitation length of stay, mean ± SD (d)	17.96 ± 25.24	22.19 ± 18.65	0.495
time post injury of Rehabilitation, mean ± SD (d)	17.62 ± 5.09	107.58 ± 62.18	0.000
Education level of parents			0.659
Primary school	5	7
Middle school	16	16
college	5	3
Live			0.358
Urban	6	9
Suburban	20	17

Table 2 Severity of total active range of motion limitation by hand joint muscle action before rehabilitation therapy

Groups	≤ 25%	25%-50%	50%-75%	> 75%	Total
Patients within 1 mo after injury	4	9	5	8	26
Patients with more than 1 month after injury	12	4	5	5	26
Total	16	13	10	13	52

P = 0.085.

Table 3 Total active range of motion of metacarpophalangeal point, proximal interphalangeal point and distal interphalangeal point

Groups	Within 1 mo	More than 1 mo	P value
Pre-rehabilitation therapy	554.04 ± 358.37	752.12 ± 375.55	0.057
Post-rehabilitation therapy	888.85 ± 345.56	901.73 ± 346.38	0.089
P value	0.001	0.142

Table 4 Treatment efficacy of total active range of motion after rehabilitation therapy

Groups	≤ 25%	25%-50%	50%-75%	> 75%	Total
Patients within 1 mo after injury	7 (26.9)	5 (19.2%)	4 (15.4%)	10 (38.5%)	26
Patients with more than 1 mo after injury	18 (69.2%)	3 (11.5%)	1 (3.8%)	4 (15.4%)	26
Total	25	8	5	14	52

P = 0.021.

Table 5 Ordered logistic analysis of predictors of the treatment efficacy

Variable	B	Exp (B)	SE	P value	95%CI
Male	-0.566	0.568	0.883	0.522	-2.296-1.165
Age	-0.210	0.811	0.147	0.065	-0.056-0.017
Inpatient	3.909	49.849	1.771	0.027	0.439-7.379
Hospital length of stay (d)	-0.091	0.913	0.031	0.003	-0.151-(-0.031)
Time post injury of rehabilitation intervention	-0.038	0.963	0.014	0.007	-0.065-(-0.011)
Rehabilitation (d)	0.130	1.139	0.047	0.005	0.039-0.221
Fire/flame	3.851	47.040	1.519	0.011	0.874-6.829
Electricity	4.591	98.593	1.817	0.012	1.029-8.153