POST-ALTA DE LEPRA: PREVALENCIA DE DISCAPACIDADES FÍSICAS Y SUPERPOSICIÓN DE ENFERMEDADES

• Autor(a) principal: Araújo, Érica Juliana Benício
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: de Araújo, Olívia Dias, de Araújo, Telma Maria Evangelista, Almeida, Priscilla Dantas, Sena, Inara Viviane de Oliveira, Neri, Erica de Alencar Rodrigues
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Cogitare Enfermagem (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.ufpr.br/cogitare/article/view/58080
• topic: Doenças Infecciosas; Epidemiologia; Saúde Pública; Hanseníase; Pessoas com deficiência; Epidemiologia; Doença crônica; Saúde pública.; Lepra; Personas con Discapacidad; Epidemiología; Enfermedad Crónica; Salud Pública.; Leprosy; Disabled people; Epidemiology; Chronic disease; Public health.

Objective: To characterize the prevalence of physical disabilities in individuals affected by post-discharge leprosy and its relationship with chronic diseases.Method: The study population consisted of 603 new cases of leprosy reported between 2001 and 2014 in endemic municipalities in the state of Piauí. Data was collected through questionnaires and simplified neurological evaluation. Statistical analyzes were performed by frequency distribution, Pearson’s Chi-square test and Fisher’s Exact test. Results.The prevalence of physical disability was 70.43%, and there was a significant association with the multibacillary clinical form, male gender, old age and low educational level (p <0.01).Conclusion:Overlapping of diseases was not a risk factor for the development of physical disabilities, but there was a higher frequency of diabetic and hypertensive subjects in the group with physical disabilities. It is necessary to plan health actions that are more suitable to the population, strengthening the longitudinality of care to chronic conditions.