Applying honey dressings to non-healing wounds in elderly persons receiving home care

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0965206X18301372" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0965206X18301372</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtv.2019.04.002" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.jtv.2019.04.002</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Applying honey dressings to non-healing wounds in elderly persons receiving home care

Original language description

Objective: The study aimed to determine the clinical effectiveness of honey dressings in the management of non-healing wounds in elderly persons receiving home care. Material and methods: Design: a prospective interventional study. The sample comprised 40 Czech home care clients (aged over 65 years) with non-healing wounds who were randomly assigned to two groups. Wounds were treated with honey (intervention group) or conventional (controls) dressings. Each wound was studied for three months. A detailed description of a wound (location, size, wound bed, edges, amount of exudate, odor, adjacent skin) were recorded. Wounds were assessed with the Wound Healing Continuum and pain intensity with the Visual Analog Scale. Results: Over the 3-month period, 16 (80%) individuals in the intervention group had their wounds completely healed, as compared with only six (30%) controls. There was no statistically significant difference in wound size between the groups on Day 1 (p = 0.1801). Ninety days later, the difference in wound size between the groups was statistically significant (p = 0.0041). There was a statistically significant difference in pain intensity between the two groups (p = 0.0007), with higher pain scores being indicated by controls. Conclusion: The study results showed that the application of honey dressings to non-healing wounds resulted in faster healing, wound size reduction and lower pain intensity. © 2019

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30307 - Nursing

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Tissue Viability

ISSN

0965-206X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

28

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

4

Pages from-to

139-143

UT code for WoS article

000477785300003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85064167204