Factors associated with disabilities on patients diagnosed with Hansen’s disease: A cross-sectional study

• Autor(a) principal: Pieri, Flávia Meneguetti
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Outros Autores: Ramos, Antônio Carlos Vieira, Crispim, Juliane de Almeida, Pitiá, Ana Celeste de Araújo, Rodrigues, Ludmila Barbosa Bandeira, Silveira, Tatiane Ramos dos Santos, Arcêncio, Ricardo Alexandre
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Hansenologia Internationalis (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.saude.sp.gov.br/hansenologia/article/view/36192
• topic: Hanseníase; Epidemiologia; Acesso aos Serviços de Saúde; Prevenção de Doenças; Leprosy; Epidemiology; Health Services Accessibility; Disease Prevention

This study aimed to analyze factors associated with disabilities on patients diagnosed with Hansen’s disease. It was an epidemiological and cross-sectional study, which included data from municipalities of 17th Health Regional Department of Paraná State. Data were gathered through Information System for Notifiable Diseases (Sinan), being selected cases diagnosed with Hansen’s disease between years 2009 and 2012. To analyze association between Hansen’s disease disability degrees and independent variables two-sided proportion chi-square was used. Alpha in 5% (α = 0,05) was defined as statistically significant. Two hundred and forty five cases with Hansen’s disease were identified to the study, of whose 129 (52.7%) were male, aged 48 years old or older (n=103; 52,7%). Factors associated with Hansen’s disease disabilities were low level of schooling (p<0.001), old age (p<0.001), to be migrated, reentry and relapse (p=0.007). Hansen’s disease disabilities represent an important problem in scenario of study, observing groups more susceptible to this event than others, therefore those first should be prioritized in terms of health actions offering and health services.