@article{2674,
  keywords = {Adult, Female, Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, Humans, leprosy, Male, Middle Aged},
  author = {Bharath S and Shamasundar C and Raghuram R and Subbakrishna D K},
  title = {Correlates of psychiatric morbidity in patients with leprosy.},
  abstract = {<p>The relationship between psychiatric morbidity in 30 leprosy patients under treatment as assessed by the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) and certain variables of their illness and psychosocial factors is examined in this paper. Physical disability and duration of illness were the illness variables considered; knowledge and adjustment were the psychosocial variables included. Bell's Adjustment Inventory (BAI) measured the latter, psychiatric morbidity was positively correlated with physical disability (p < 0.05), knowledge about the disease (p < 0.01) and social, emotional and health maladjustment (p < 0.01), but not with duration of illness (p > 0.05). The importance of appropriate knowledge, social stigma and physical disability in leprosy is discussed in addressing the psychiatric morbidity of leprosy patients.</p>},
  year = {2001},
  journal = {Indian journal of leprosy},
  volume = {73},
  pages = {217-28},
  month = {2001 Jul-Sep},
  issn = {0254-9395},
  language = {eng},
}