Exploring the Burn Model System National Database: Burn injuries, substance misuse, and the CAGE questionnaire

Burns. 2020 May;46(3):745-747. doi: 10.1016/j.burns.2019.12.016. Epub 2019 Dec 31.

Abstract

Burn survivors who misuse alcohol and/other substances have been associated with poorer long-term outcomes and clinical complications following injury. The self-reported CAGE questionnaire (Cut down, Annoyed, Guilty, and Eye-opener) is an outcomes assessment tool used to screen for potential substance misuse. Understanding the persistence and emergence of potential substance misuse through examination of CAGE scores may provide important information about this population. Using data collected from the Burn Model System National Database, demographic and clinical characteristics of individuals who reported positive CAGE scores (total score of ≥2) and those who reported negative CAGE scores (total score of 0 or 1) for either alcohol or other drugs were compared.

Keywords: Burn injury; CAGE questionnaire; Substance misuse.

Publication types

  • Letter
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Alcoholism / diagnosis
  • Alcoholism / epidemiology
  • Burns / epidemiology*
  • Databases, Factual
  • Female
  • Follow-Up Studies
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Mass Screening
  • Middle Aged
  • Substance-Related Disorders / diagnosis
  • Substance-Related Disorders / epidemiology*
  • Surveys and Questionnaires
  • United States / epidemiology