Understanding the attitude of multidisciplinary teams working in leprosy.
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چکیده
This study investigated the attitude of health personnel who were working for the National Leprosy Eradication Programme (NLEP) in India to their leprosy patients. These personnel were studied individually and as homogeneous groups so that comparisons were possible within and among the groups, and between the groups in different regions who were conducting similar health programmes, with a difference in length of between 1 and 5 years. The sample population was the NLEP employees of 2 state governments, consisting of 8 health professional groups. A questionnaire was developed for each of these groups to elicit information on 5 aspects of the relationships with their patients. The main outcome of the study was that two-thirds of the personnel tested possessed the 'minimum desirable' interaction with their patients. The quality of their relationships differed only among work specialities, but was consistent within the same speciality in different regions; this pattern was unchanged after 5 years of a multidrug (MDT) programme. A further analysis showed that although they possessed a caring attitude towards patients from low socioeconomic classes, a domineering attitude towards these same patients was also prevalent. Analysis according to speciality revealed that laboratory technicians had the highest "desirable attitude" (74.67%) and health educators had the lowest (57.5%), while the rest of the team members fell in between. The stigma shown towards leprosy was higher among doctors when compared to the rest of the team members. Discussion is based on the performance, overall and in each of its 5 facets, of each the professional groups with reference to their job descriptions and with similar studies undertaken earlier.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Leprosy review
دوره 65 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1994