| Autor: |
Emanuelle Malzac Freire de Santana, Karen Krystine Gonçalves de Brito, Ester Missias Vilaverde Antas, Jordana de Almeida Nogueira, Oriana Deyze Correia Paiva Leadebal, Mirian Alves da Silva, Marta Miriam Lopes Costa, Maria Júlia Guimarães Oliveira Soares |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2018 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, Vol 60, Iss 0 (2018) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
1678-9946 |
| DOI: |
10.1590/s1678-9946201860027 |
| Popis: |
ABSTRACT Hansen’s disease is probably the human disease that causes more damage. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between the occurrence of the association of grade 1 and 2 physical disabilities in Hansen’s disease, as well as implications of joint analysis and strength of association with independent demographic and clinical variables. This is a quantitative, descriptive, retrospective, population-based and documentary study developed from 2009 to 2014 in a Hansen’s disease reference center in Joao Pessoa, PB. It involved 414 medical records, the diagnosis and discharge data on socio-demographic, clinical and simplified neurological evaluation variables. Data were analyzed using descriptive (absolute frequency and percentage) and inferential (Chi-Square and Prevalence Ratio (PR) statistics techniques. Both in the diagnosis and discharge, low education level, multibacillary classification and presence of affected nerves were statistically associated to the development of disabilities (p |
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