Abstrakt
Residential camps for children who have experienced a severe burn have existed for over 20 years. The idea stemmed from recognition that children with burns face additional challenges, both physical and psychological, and therefore need long-term psychosocial support away from the acute care setting.
Whilst individual programmes have published positive evaluation findings, there have been no cross-regional evaluations undertaken to date. Discussion: The study highlighted the generic benefits of burn camps by collapsing themes across five different sites.
Whilst this minimised the localised differences between camps, further research could be used to analyse these subtle differences in greater detail. Some consideration was made of the language barriers between sites which could have effected the interpretation of some of the individual themes.
A multi-methodological approach could be used to reduce this effect in future