01388nas a2200241   4500000000100000008004100001260001700042653002100059653002100080653001100101653001200112653003100124100001400155700001300169700002000182700001400202245010000216300001100316490000700327050001600334520078200350022001401132       1995                            d  c1995 Oct-Dec10aDisabled Persons10aHealth Education10aHumans10aleprosy10aPatient Education as Topic1 aEthiraj T1 aAntony P1 aKrishnamurthy P1 aReddy N B00aA study on the effect of patient and community education in prevention of disability programme.  a435-450 v67  aETHIRAJ19953 a<p>The effect of self-care learning by leprosy patients in prevention of disabilities was studied by adapting two strategies in two subcentres of a project in South India, one through patient education by trained field staff and the other through community education involving trained animators and health committees. One of the subcentres was taken as control where neither of the strategies was employed. In terms of results, though both the strategies were found to be effective in containing occurrence of new deformities among high risk patients and healing of trophic ulcers in hands and feet, strategy I i.e. self-care education of patients by concerned field personnel without prejudice to their routine work is recommended because of ease in diffusion of strategy.</p>  a0254-9395