ArticleJournal of family medicine and primary care2025
Strengthening leprosy control through capacity building of allied health workers: A pre-post design.
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Introduction: The main hurdles to achieving early diagnosis and management of leprosy and its complications are lack of community awareness and the challenging social stigma. Healthcare workers play a key role in increasing community awareness and eliminating stigma about leprosy, and it is one of the important responsibilities. The objective of the study is to assess the knowledge of Allied Health Sciences (AHS) students about leprosy before and after the training program and to explore the stigma prevailing in the society about leprosy. Materials and Methods: It was a pre- and post-test mixed-method study involving both quantitative and qualitative components. Group discussion was conducted for 74 AHS students (lab technicians and nursing students). A paired Results: The mean change in overall score was 0.228, which was significant ( Conclusion: Implementation of need-based health education and sensitization programs should be improved, and more emphasis needs to be placed on early case identification of leprosy.
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