THE SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL CORRELATES OF LEPROSY

Leprosy, one of the most chronic tropical diseases, acts as a unique psychosocial stressor for the social stigma associated with it. The present study assessed the nature of such stigma and its possible effect on the patient's mental health. Leprosy patients perceive that (a) their illness evok...

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Autores principales: Chatterjee, R.N., Nandi, D.N., Banerjee, Gauranga, Sen, Biswajit, Mukherjee, A., Banerjee, Gautam
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1989
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Original Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3172021/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21927408
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author Chatterjee, R.N.
Nandi, D.N.
Banerjee, Gauranga
Sen, Biswajit
Mukherjee, A.
Banerjee, Gautam
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description Leprosy, one of the most chronic tropical diseases, acts as a unique psychosocial stressor for the social stigma associated with it. The present study assessed the nature of such stigma and its possible effect on the patient's mental health. Leprosy patients perceive that (a) their illness evokes public fear and hate, (b) it is degrading and humiliating and they should be segregated from family and society and (c) it is incurable and a consequence of sin. Psychiatric morbidity is commoner among the in-patients (64%) than among the out-patients (25%).
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spelling pubmed-31720212011-09-16 THE SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL CORRELATES OF LEPROSY Chatterjee, R.N. Nandi, D.N. Banerjee, Gauranga Sen, Biswajit Mukherjee, A. Banerjee, Gautam Indian J Psychiatry Original Article Leprosy, one of the most chronic tropical diseases, acts as a unique psychosocial stressor for the social stigma associated with it. The present study assessed the nature of such stigma and its possible effect on the patient's mental health. Leprosy patients perceive that (a) their illness evokes public fear and hate, (b) it is degrading and humiliating and they should be segregated from family and society and (c) it is incurable and a consequence of sin. Psychiatric morbidity is commoner among the in-patients (64%) than among the out-patients (25%). Medknow Publications 1989 /pmc/articles/PMC3172021/ /pubmed/21927408 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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