Assessment of Knowledge and Skills of Peripheral Health Workers for Screening and Detection of Early Nerve Damage in Leprosy: A Cross-Sectional Study
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Dental and Medical Sciences (IOSR-JDMS) - Year 2018, Vol 17, Issue 6
Abstract
Background: Leprosy, a public health problem, and its elimination in terms of prevalence of less than one case per 10,000 population was achieved at global level in 2001 and by India in 2005 at the national level. In order to achieve elimination of leprosy in all districts of the country leprosy activities were integrated through general health care system.Objectives: The present study was conducted to assess the basic knowledge of health workers on leprosy, its control and their ability to screen leprosy and nerve function impairment using the simplified tool developed by National Leprosy Elimination Program.Methods: An observational crosssectional study was carried in two randomly selected blocks of PurbaBardhamandistrict - Bhatar and Mongolkote between April and September 2015. Results: The study revealed that majority of health workers had satisfactory knowledge regarding various aspect of leprosy including implementation of leprosy elimination programme. However, the health workers performed poorly in most of the components related to skill. The sensory and voluntary muscle testing (ST/VMT) skills too showed poor performance.Conclusions: There is a need for regular comprehensive skill training of frontline health workers.
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RabindraNath Roy, Prabha Shrivastava, Kausik Mitra, Soumalya Ray, Somnath Naskar, Sutapa Mondal
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