Assessment of Disability amongst Leprosy Patients: A Cross-Sectional Study
Journal Title: National Journal of Community Medicine - Year 2017, Vol 8, Issue 8
Abstract
Introduction: Leprosy is one the public health problem in India lead-ing to physical disabilities. In some studies the prevalence rates of disa-bility in leprosy patients were be-tween 16% to 56%. Objectives: To study the socio-demographic profile of patients of leprosyand to study the factors as-sociated with disabilities in leprosy patients. Material and methods: This cross sectional study was carried out amongst 46 leprosy patients. Socio-demographic factors, clinical profile and WHO disability grading for disability assessment was assessed by house to house survey method. Results:Of the 46 leprosy patients, 17 (37%) were from age group of 31 to 45 years, 30 (65.2%) were males, 21 (45.7%) belonged to Hindu, 36(78.3%) were married. 23 (50%) were from nuclear families, 17 (37%) patients educated up to pri-mary school, 20 (43.5%)were un-skilled workers, 24(52.2%) were from middle class.Clinical profile of the patients showed that 36 (78.3%) were suffering from multibacillary leprosy, 42 (91.3%) patients had no lepra reaction and 24 (52.2%) pa-tients had at least one nerve in-volved.The 60.86% leprosy patients had disability (grade 1 and 2). The disability among leprosy patients was significantly associated with nerve involvement and not signifi-cantly related with sex, religion, type of family, education, socio-economic status, marital status, oc-cupation, type of leprosy, lepra reac-tion. Conclusion: More than half of the registered leprosy patients haddisa-bility in Nanded city.
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Vijay K Domple, Manoj Y Harnalikar, Satish K Wadde, Rambhau Gadekar, Vishal S Dhande
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