Overall, findings indicate that people with darker skin tones are more likely to develop higher stage pressure injuries. The foci of studies included the following: risk of sustaining a pressure injuries based on skin tones, identification of pressure injuries amongst people with dark skin tones, pressure injuries and place of care and socio-economic impact on pressure injuries development. A search of the literature revealed 11 relevant articles.
Alongside the electronic data, journals, books, papers from conferences, relevant national and international organisations and reference lists were also used to help source key studies. A comprehensive electronic database search was undertaken of PubMed, Cumulative Index for Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Cochrane and British Nursing Index (BNI) between 1990-July 2016. Thus, the perceptions of people with dark skin tones and the influence of skin pigmentation on identification and management of pressure injuries is under examined. Pressure injuries development has been widely researched and documented however, much of this work does not address ethnicity or race and assumes Caucasian-ness. In this article, we aimed to explore the literature to ascertain what research evidence exists in relation to the identification of pressure injuries in people with dark skin tones. Oozageer Gunowa, Neesha Hutchinson, Marie Brooke, Joanne Jackson, Debra
Pressure injuries in people with darker skin tones: A literature review.
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