About Us

Mission

The LIBRE Project aims to improve the lives of burn survivors by looking beyond physical recovery to target the everyday difficulties of returning to life in the following areas:

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  • Social Interactions
  • Social Activities
  • Relationships with Family and Friends
  • Romantic Relationships
  • Sexual Relationships
  • Work and Employment

By creating the LIBRE Profile,a questionnaire that looks at the social recovery of burn survivors, we hope to provide a comprehensive burn recovery evaluation that both empowers burn survivors to better understand their own recovery process and improves overall rehabilitation efforts.

The LIBRE Profile

Once completed, the LIBRE Profile will be used by burn survivors and their clinicians to track burn recovery.  The LIBRE Profile is unique in that it is tailored to the individual and focused on burn injury and its social impact.

Tailored to the Individual

Using an innovative test format, the computer adaptive test (CAT), LIBRE Profile tailors the questions it asks to the individual. A burn survivor will receive an accurate assessment of how they are recovering after answering only a handful of questions instead of answering a long list of questions that may not apply to them.

Burn Specific

By using feedback from burn survivors, family members, and clinicians, LIBRE asks questions that are specific to burn injuries and to the recovery process of burn survivors.

Social Impact of Burn Injury

Recovering from a burn injury can be a lifelong process that affects every aspect of life. LIBRE Profile takes a comprehensive look at burn recovery by assessing how burn injury affects a person’s life in terms of work, family, friends, social activities, and community.

Funding

The contents of this website were developed under a grant from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR grant number 90 H133A130023).  NIDILRR is a Center within the Administration for Community Living (ACL), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).  The contents of this website do not necessarily represent the policy of NIDILRR, ACL, HHS, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government.