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“Whenever I tell her to wear slippers, she turns a deaf ear. She never listens”: a qualitative descriptive research on the barriers to basic lymphedema management and quality of life in lymphatic filariasis patients in a rural block of eastern India

BACKGROUND: Chronic lymphatic filariasis patients in Bihar, India, need management of lymphedema to live a disability-free life. For patients who have recurrent attacks of acute dermato-lymphangio-adenitis (ADLA), World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended simple home-based measures that includ...

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Autores principales: Kumar, Pragya, Ahmad, Shamshad, Bhar, Ditipriya, Roy, Ria, Singh, Bhavna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10662554/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37986020
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-023-06036-0