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Quality Of Life Among Leprosy Patients

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Community Health Nursing

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Background: Leprosy is caused by mycobacterium leprae and spread among those living in poverty. stigma has been associated with leprosy. Aim: Assess quality of life among leprosy patient. Subjects and method: .Design: A descriptive  cross-section design was adopted on the current study .Setting: This study was carried out Hospital of Dermatology, Venereal and leprosy in Dakahelia Governorate. Subjects: A purposive sample was used to this study and compromised  of 325. Tool: Two tools were utilized to collect necessary data in this study. Tool I, Structured interview. Tool II, the World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL) –BREF. Results: The present of study showed that, more than half of leprosy patients (55.4%) rated their quality of life as very poor. most of leprosy patients had a poor knowledge (99.7%) and had negative attitudes toward leprosy. And also there are appositive statically significant relation between four domain of quality of life, age ,and family number. Conclusions: Majority of leprosy patients were not working, low education stander and living in rural area, most of leprosy patients had a poor knowledge and had negative attitudes toward leprosy. Recommendations:  contagious training program about leprosy for leprosy patients  through visual aids such as posters and clear language booklets to improve their knowledge.  

DOI

10.21608/pssjn.2021.182050

Keywords

Leprosy patients, quality of life

Authors

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Nesma Mohamed Faheem

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Abd EL-Rahman

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Family and Community Health Nursing

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gehad Mohamed

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Abou EL-Matty

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Professor of Family and Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Port said University

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Naglaa Ibrahim

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mohamed Gida

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Family and Community Health Nursing ,Faculty of Nursing, Port said University

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Abdel El-Nasser

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Ramadan ELkholy

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M.D. Dermatology and Venereology, El Mansoura Dermatology and Leprosy Hospital

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8

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2

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26068

Issue Date

2021-06-01

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2021-06-05

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2021-06-01

Page Start

118

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133

Print ISSN

2356-8658

Online ISSN

2682-3241

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866

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Port Said Scientific Journal of Nursing

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Quality Of Life Among Leprosy Patients

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22 Jan 2023