The Study on Level of Satisfaction Towards Pressure Garment Usage among Adults with Burn

The purpose of this study was to determine the level of satisfaction towards the pressure garment among adults with burn.

30 burn patients were selected in a cross sectional study. The study took place at Occupational Therapy Unit in Hospital University Science Malaysia. The samples need to fill up the consent form to indicate that they have agreed to take part to the study. During the data gathering process, the samples were given the information regarding the introductions, purpose of the study and the procedure to fill up the self administered questionnaire. The self administered questionnaire that had been marked, was kept and all the information was take into the privacy.

76.7% of the participants did satisfy with the garment given and 23.3% were totally satisfied with the garment. The results that had been found were there was a relationship between knowledge and level of satisfaction Z-value (−3.532) and (p= 0.000) and also for gender and level of satisfaction male comfort level versus female comfort level was (z =-3.409) and male knowledge versus female knowledge was (z =-3.352) and (p<0.001) so the difference between both measurements is significant. But, the knowledge impact to the satisfaction level was greater than the gender of the participants.

This study was concluded that the level of satisfaction in using pressure garment by adult population was significantly influenced by their knowledge and also gender of the participants on the pressure garment usage. Further recommendation is to use another types of pressure garment such as Lycra and used randomized controlled study.