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The experiences of people with diabetes-related lower limb amputation at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Ghana

OBJECTIVE: Lower limb amputation not only causes major disfigurement, but renders people less mobile and at risk of loss of independence. Yet with appropriate rehabilitation, many people can learn to walk or function again and live high quality lives. This study sought to explore the experiences of...

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Autores principales: Amoah, Vida Maame Kissiwaa, Anokye, Reindolf, Acheampong, Enoch, Dadson, Helina Rubby, Osei, Mary, Nadutey, Alberta
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5781296/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29361966
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-018-3176-1
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author Amoah, Vida Maame Kissiwaa
Anokye, Reindolf
Acheampong, Enoch
Dadson, Helina Rubby
Osei, Mary
Nadutey, Alberta
author_facet Amoah, Vida Maame Kissiwaa
Anokye, Reindolf
Acheampong, Enoch
Dadson, Helina Rubby
Osei, Mary
Nadutey, Alberta
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description OBJECTIVE: Lower limb amputation not only causes major disfigurement, but renders people less mobile and at risk of loss of independence. Yet with appropriate rehabilitation, many people can learn to walk or function again and live high quality lives. This study sought to explore the experiences of patients with diabetes-related lower limb amputation at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital. An exploratory study design was adopted using a qualitative approach and a purposive sampling to select 10 participants for the study. A semi-structured interview guide was used with an in-depth face-to-face interview. The interview was tape-recorded with an audio recorder while notes were taken in addition to the audio recording. RESULTS: There were varying degrees of experiences ranging from physical as well as psychological and economic challenges. Amputees had to cope with playing entirely new roles after the amputation. They also experienced some economic challenges which were as a result of their inability to work. Some of the amputees consoled themselves with the fact that, despite their condition, they were better than other people. Others believed that whatever happened was Gods doing and nothing could be done about it. This self-consolation and the belief in God helped them to cope. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s13104-018-3176-1) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-57812962018-02-06 The experiences of people with diabetes-related lower limb amputation at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Ghana Amoah, Vida Maame Kissiwaa Anokye, Reindolf Acheampong, Enoch Dadson, Helina Rubby Osei, Mary Nadutey, Alberta BMC Res Notes Research Note OBJECTIVE: Lower limb amputation not only causes major disfigurement, but renders people less mobile and at risk of loss of independence. Yet with appropriate rehabilitation, many people can learn to walk or function again and live high quality lives. This study sought to explore the experiences of patients with diabetes-related lower limb amputation at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital. An exploratory study design was adopted using a qualitative approach and a purposive sampling to select 10 participants for the study. A semi-structured interview guide was used with an in-depth face-to-face interview. The interview was tape-recorded with an audio recorder while notes were taken in addition to the audio recording. RESULTS: There were varying degrees of experiences ranging from physical as well as psychological and economic challenges. Amputees had to cope with playing entirely new roles after the amputation. They also experienced some economic challenges which were as a result of their inability to work. Some of the amputees consoled themselves with the fact that, despite their condition, they were better than other people. Others believed that whatever happened was Gods doing and nothing could be done about it. This self-consolation and the belief in God helped them to cope. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s13104-018-3176-1) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2018-01-24 /pmc/articles/PMC5781296/ /pubmed/29361966 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-018-3176-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Amoah, Vida Maame Kissiwaa
Anokye, Reindolf
Acheampong, Enoch
Dadson, Helina Rubby
Osei, Mary
Nadutey, Alberta
The experiences of people with diabetes-related lower limb amputation at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Ghana
title The experiences of people with diabetes-related lower limb amputation at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Ghana
title_full The experiences of people with diabetes-related lower limb amputation at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Ghana
title_fullStr The experiences of people with diabetes-related lower limb amputation at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Ghana
title_full_unstemmed The experiences of people with diabetes-related lower limb amputation at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Ghana
title_short The experiences of people with diabetes-related lower limb amputation at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Ghana
title_sort experiences of people with diabetes-related lower limb amputation at the komfo anokye teaching hospital (kath) in ghana
topic Research Note
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5781296/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29361966
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-018-3176-1
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