Knowledge, Beliefs and Perception of Leprosy

Singh, Sukhbir; Sinha, Anil Kishore; Banerjee, B. G.; Jaswal, Nidhi

doi:10.5463/dcid.v23i4.179

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“…Outsiders might view these as “risky” behaviours which must be changed to prevent the occurrence of events such as perinatal deaths. An Indian study [ 72 ] showed that belief in Karma , sin and God’s punishment were described as reasons for Leprosy by about two-thirds (65%) of the study’s interviewees. Fatalistic beliefs about infant deaths are identified in other studies, such as in the upper Lombok region of Indonesia where infants died due to simple treatable conditions [ 65 ].…”

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Religio-cultural factors contributing to perinatal mortality and morbidity in mountain villages of Nepal: Implications for future healthcare provision

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Objective and the contextThis paper examines the beliefs and experiences of women and their families in remote mountain villages of Nepal about perinatal sickness and death and considers the implications of these beliefs for future healthcare provision.MethodsTwo mountain villages were chosen for this qualitative study to provide diversity of context within a highly disadvantaged region. Individual in-depth interviews were conducted with 42 women of childbearing age and their family members, 15 health service providers, and 5 stakeholders. The data were analysed using a thematic analysis technique with a comprehensive coding process.FindingsThree key themes emerged from the study: (1) ‘Everyone has gone through it’: perinatal death as a natural occurrence; (2) Dewata (God) as a factor in health and sickness: a cause and means to overcome sickness in mother and baby; and (3) Karma (Past deeds), Bhagya (Fate) or Lekhanta (Destiny): ways of rationalising perinatal deaths.ConclusionReligio-cultural interpretations underlie a fatalistic view among villagers in Nepal’s mountain communities about any possibility of preventing perinatal deaths. This perpetuates a silence around the issue, and results in severe under-reporting of ongoing high perinatal death rates and almost no reporting of stillbirths. The study identified a strong belief in religio-cultural determinants of perinatal death, which demonstrates that medical interventions alone are not sufficient to prevent these deaths and that broader social determinants which are highly significant in local life must be considered in policy making and programming.

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Religio-cultural factors contributing to perinatal mortality and morbidity in mountain villages of Nepal: Implications for future healthcare provision

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“…This result also yields inconsistent with a study done in Ethiopia in which more than half of respondents believed that leprosy is the result of curse and calamity, while only 13% of the respondents understand the causes of the disease correctly [26]. A study done in India which shows 37% of the participants believe that leprosy is caused by bacteria [23] and skin to skin contact with leprosy patient 45.7% [27]. Study in Mexico showed that 60% of the respondents said that leprosy is caused by microbes [28], infection (50%) [3] and very few 8% said that it is caused by germs [7].…”

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“…Also, more than one third of respondents believed that leprosy could also be transmitted by personal contact such as sharing personal items including towels and toothbrushes. This result was inconsistent with a study in India which revealed that respondents believed that leprosy was transmitted through sharing food and drinks, utensils, contact with the leprosy patient's sweat, mosquito or insect bites and sexual contact with a person with leprosy [27]. Also studies in China revealed that the disease has been transmitted during sexual intercourse with prostitutes [29].…”

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Knowledge, Belief and Attitude of the Community towards Leprosy Patients in Gindeberet Woreda, West Shewa Zone

Zewdu¹

2018

NHIJ

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Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease of public health importance and one of the leading causes of permanent physical disability. Nevertheless, the drop in prevalence following multidrug therapy has resulted in the neglect of leprosy. The prevalence and annual incidence of new cases of leprosy is persistently high for the past 10 years in Ethiopia. The purpose of this study was to examine the knowledge, belief and attitude of the community towards leprosy patients in Gindeberet Woreda, Oromia region, Ethiopia. A community based cross sectional survey design was carried out on a sample of 571 randomly selected adults. A self-administered structured questionnaire was used to collect the data. Descriptive statistics, independent sample t-test, one-way ANOVA, point bi-serial and Chi-square were utilized to analyze the collected data. As a result, 453 (79.3%) and 351 (61.5%) of respondents had poor knowledge and negative attitude towards leprosy respectively. More specifically, 263 (48.7%) of the respondents correctly believed that leprosy was caused by germs. However, 431 (75.5%), 413 (72.3%), 355(62.2%), 333 (58.3%) and 275 (48.1%) of respondents were attributed vitamin deficiency, unclean environment, impure blood, eating too much cooling food and hereditary as the causes of leprosy while only 14% and 10.5% 10.5% believed that leprosy was a punishment for sins/curse and evil spirits respectively. Hence, nearly half of respondents stated that leprosy could be transmitted from mother to infant and personal contact. Also, 140(24.5%) correctly reported that leprosy could be treated with anti-leprosy drugs. In fact, 107 (36.15%) did not want to sit with leprosy patients. Besides, 67% of the respondents were not able to list down the cardinal signs of leprosy correctly and 71% didn't know the patho-physiology of disability in leprosy. In this study, the level of leprosy knowledge was associated with the sex, age, educational status, and religion of respondents. Moreover, sex, age and educational status had statistically significant effect on respondents' attitude towards leprosy. In addition, among all examined variables, only sex and educational status had an interaction effect on respondents' attitude towards leprosy. Strong positive correlation was observed between the knowledge and attitudes of the community towards leprosy patients. In conclusion, an overall lack of knowledge and prevalence of delusion regarding the cause, transmission and outcome of leprosy was identified among the community. Stigmatizing attitudes towards leprosy

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“…14 Dari hasil penelitian yang dilakukan oleh Singh dkk. 18 di India pada tahun 2012 diketahui bahwa peserta penelitian percaya penyakit kusta ditularkan melalui makanan dan minuman, penggunaan barang bersama atau kontak dengan keringat pasien kusta, gigitan nyamuk atau serangga, dan hubungan seksual dengan pasien kusta.…”

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Tingkat pengetahuan penyakit kusta dan komplikasinya pada siswa sekolah menengah atas negeri Jatinangor

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Achdiat²,

Rahardjo³

2018

Dharmakarya

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Kusta merupakan penyakit menular yang masih ditakuti oleh masyarakat. Kusta dipercaya sebagai penyakit kutukan dari Tuhan, penyakit keturunan atau karena ilmu gaib yang sulit disembuhkan, dianggap memalukan dan menimbulkan aib bagi keluarga. Perlakuan diskriminasi terhadap pasien kusta tidak terlepas dari masih rendahnya pengetahuan masyarakat tentang kusta. Tingkat pengetahuan dan sikap masyarakat diketahui berkorelasi dengan dukungan terhadap pasien kusta. Peningkatan pengetahuan dengan penyebaran informasi seperti kegiatan penyuluhan tentang kusta dan komplikasinya merupakan salah satu upaya penting yang harus dilakukan untuk mengurangi stigma dan diskriminasi masyarakat terhadap pasien kusta. Kegiatan pengabdian kepada masyarakat (PPM) berupa penyuluhan ini dilakukan di SMA Negeri Jatinangor, Kecamatan Jatinangor, Kabupaten Sumedang. Peserta penyuluhan yaitu siswa dengan total peserta 50 orang. Pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan menggunakan kuesioner. Setiap lembar kuesioner terdiri dari 10 pertanyaan, yang meliputi etiologi, epidemiologi, penularan, tanda dan gejala, pengobatan, komplikasi, dan pencegahan kusta. Tingkat pengetahuan seluruh siswa SMA tentang kusta dan komplikasinya sebelum dilakukan penyuluhan masih rendah. Pemberian materi penyuluhan diketahui meningkatkan pengetahuan siswa. Dari hasil kuesioner setelah penyuluhan diketahui bahwa 92% peserta penyuluhan memiliki pengetahuan tentang penyakit kusta yang tinggi dan hanya 8% peserta dengan tingkat pengetahuan yang rendah. Tingkat pengetahuan masyarakat yang rendah dipengaruhi oleh tiga faktor utama yaitu tingkat pendidikan yang rendah, kurangnya upaya penyebaran informasi tentang kusta, dan kepercayaan pada masyarakat yang bersifat turun temurun. Penyuluhan dapat meningkatkan pengetahuan siswa tentang penyakit kusta dan komplikasinya. Siswa SMA diharapkan dapat menjadi ujung tombak dalam penyebaran informasi penyuluhan pada keluarga dan masyarakat, sehingga dapat mengurangi stigma dan diskriminasi masyarakat terhadap pasien kusta.

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Knowledge, Beliefs and Perception of Leprosy

Cited by 17 publications

References 7 publications

Religio-cultural factors contributing to perinatal mortality and morbidity in mountain villages of Nepal: Implications for future healthcare provision

Religio-cultural factors contributing to perinatal mortality and morbidity in mountain villages of Nepal: Implications for future healthcare provision

Knowledge, Belief and Attitude of the Community towards Leprosy Patients in Gindeberet Woreda, West Shewa Zone

Tingkat pengetahuan penyakit kusta dan komplikasinya pada siswa sekolah menengah atas negeri Jatinangor

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