Knowledge, stigma, health seeking behaviour and its determinants among patients with post kalaazar dermal leishmaniasis, Bihar, India.
Pavan GarapatiBiplab PalNiyamat Ali SiddiquiSanjiva BimalPradeep DasKrishna MurtiKrishna PandeyPublished in: PloS one (2018)
PKDL treatment delays were unacceptably high and patients had poor knowledge compounded with feelings of stigmatization. To reduce the delay, a system may be evolved to establish some sort of public-private collaboration, besides awareness programs should be tailored, and implemented for improving the patient education regarding the disease and its linkage with VL.
Keyphrases
- healthcare
- mental health
- end stage renal disease
- public health
- chronic kidney disease
- ejection fraction
- newly diagnosed
- prognostic factors
- case report
- emergency department
- genome wide
- mental illness
- quality improvement
- health insurance
- patient reported outcomes
- smoking cessation
- human immunodeficiency virus
- social support
- gene expression
- replacement therapy