Quality Of Life Among Leprosy Patients | ||||
| Port Said Scientific Journal of Nursing | ||||
| Article 7, Volume 8, Issue 2, June 2021, Page 118-133 PDF (470.85 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/pssjn.2021.182050 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Nesma Mohamed Faheem Abd EL-Rahman1; gehad Mohamed Abou EL-Matty2; Naglaa Ibrahim mohamed Gida3; Abdel El-Nasser Ramadan ELkholy4 | ||||
| 1Family and Community Health Nursing | ||||
| 2Professor of Family and Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Port said University | ||||
| 3Family and Community Health Nursing ,Faculty of Nursing, Port said University | ||||
| 4M.D. Dermatology and Venereology, El Mansoura Dermatology and Leprosy Hospital | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| 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. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Leprosy patients; Quality of life | ||||
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