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Life Impact Burn Recovery Evaluation Profile (LIBRE)

LIBRE app

The Life Impact Burn Recovery Evaluation (LIBRE) Profile is a self-reported outcome measure of social participation for adults with burn injury. It measures an individual's ability to engage in social situations across six areas: Relationships with Family & Friends, Social Interaction, Social Activities, Work & Employment, Romantic Relationships, and Sexual Relationships.

The LIBRE Profile is available as a paper survey or a mobile app on the Apple Store and Google Play.

If you are looking for resources for a burn survivor, please consider the Phoenix Society for Burn Survivors.

Learn more about the scoring and science behind the LIBRE Profile.

Learn more about international translations of the LIBRE Profile.

Authors

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Publications

Adult LIBRE Publications

Pediatric LIBRE Publications

LIBRE International Publications

Kazis LE, Sager A, Bailey HM, Vasudevan A, Garrity B, Tompkins RG. Physical Rehabilitation and Mental Health Care After Burn Injury: A Multinational Study [published correction appears in J Burn Care Res. 2022 May 17;43(3):758. doi: 10.1093/jbcr/irac004]. J Burn Care Res. 2022;43(4):868-879. doi:10.1093/jbcr/irab214

Vasudevan A, Bailey HM, Sager A, Kazis LE. Impact of the Early COVID-19 Pandemic on Burn Care: A Multi-National Study. J Burn Care Res. 2023;44(3):580-589. doi:10.1093/jbcr/irac076

Kazis LE, Marino M, Ni P, Soley Bori M, Amaya F, et al. Development of the life impact burn recovery evaluation (LIBRE) profile: assessing burn survivors' social participation. Qual Life Res. 2017 May 10; PubMed PMID: 28493205.

Dore EC, Marino M, Ni P, Lomelin-Gascon J, Sonis L, Amaya F, Ryan CM, Schneider JC, Jette AM, Kazis LE. Reliability & validity of the LIBRE Profile. Burns. 2018 Nov; 44(7):1750-1758. PMID: 30075970.

Marino M, Soley-Bori M, Jette AM, Slavin MD, Ryan CM, Schneider JC, Resnik L, Acton A, Amaya F, Rossi M, Soria-Saucedo R. Development of a Conceptual Framework to Measure the Social Impact of Burns. J Burn Care Res. 2016

Slavin MD, Ryan CM, Schneider JC, Acton A, Amaya F, Saret C, Ohrtman E, Wolfe A, Ni P, Kazis LE. Interpreting Life Impact Burn Recovery Evaluation Profile Scores for Use by Clinicians, Burn Survivors, and Researchers. J Burn Care Res. 2021 02 03; 42(1):23-31. PMID: 32556266

The LIBRE Profile was developed in collaboration with Boston University School of Public Health, the Boston-Harvard Burn Injury Model System, Mass General Brigham and the Phoenix Society for Burn Survivors, with funding by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research, Award Number 90DP0055. The LIBRE Profile uses the World Health Organization’s International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) as a conceptual framework. The LIBRE Profile was developed specifically to measure social participation in persons with a burn injury.