Post-discharge health impairment of patients treated for leprosy and related factors: Scope review

• Autor(a) principal: Fortunato, Cibelly Nunes
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Nascimento, Nathalia Claudino do, Ferreira, Bruna Vitória de Oliveira, Silveira, Lauremília Maria Gomes da, Silva, Ana Cristina de Oliveira e, Freire, Maria Eliane Moreira
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Reme (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/reme/article/view/39885
• topic: Pessoas com deficiência; Hanseníase; Enfermagem em reabilitação; Qualidade de vida; Revisão Sistemática; Disabled Persons; Leprosy; Rehabilitation Nursing; Quality of Life; Systematic Review; Personas con Discapacidad; Lepra; Enfermería en Rehabilitación; Calidad de Vida; Revisión Sistemática

Objective: to map evidence in the scientific literature on the post-discharge health impairment of patients treated for leprosy and related factors. Materials and Method: scope review carried out from the CINAHL, LILACS, MEDLINE, PUBMED, SCOPUS and Web of Science databases in March 2021, guided by the mnemonic strategy that helps to identify the Problem, Concept and Context proposed by the Joanna Institute Briggs, systematized through the PRISMA-ScR flowchart, and registered in the Open Science Framework (osf.io/vmdc6). Studies on the subject published until February 2021 in the national and international scenario were included. Results: of the ten articles included in the final sample, nine showed some degree of functional impairment, demonstrating weaknesses in follow-up from diagnosis to the post-discharge period. Conclusions: there is evidence of more frequent involvement, especially of a physical nature, which directly impact the functionality of these people's daily and social activities. Weaknesses in post-discharge monitoring were related to the lack of trained professionals, lack of knowledge of assessment techniques and classification of the degree of disability, lack of health education provision, difficulty in accessing health services, delay in treatment of reactional episodes and biopsychosocial rehabilitation and the absence of systematization of care.