TY - JOUR
KW - Family health.
KW - Primary health care; Health promotion
KW - Community Health Nursing
KW - leprosy
AU - Silva A P
AU - Santos A S
AU - Santos R A
AU - Silva S P
AB - Objective: to identify the relation of infection among household contacts and patients with leprosy. Methodology: this is study descriptive, exploratory and cross-sectional study from quantitative approach in the area enrolled in a Family Health Unit in Petrolina-PE city. The sample consisted of 11 patients with leprosy and 23 household contacts. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews. The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Instituto Materno Infantil Professor Fernando Figueira protocol n. 1701. Results: patients were mostly female with a diagnosis of paucibacillary. As for communicating data, it was realized that the age ranged between 18 and 74, with school level heterogeneity. It was noted that contacts had lived for a long period of patients with clinical forms of higher transmission power. Conclusions: it is essential to control the contacts of leprosy patients through effective performance of the team of family health. 
BT - Journal of Nursing UFPE on line [JNUOL / DOI: 10.5205/01012007]; 
DA - 07/2011
DO - 10.5205/1557
IS - 6
LA - eng
M1 - 6
N2 - Objective: to identify the relation of infection among household contacts and patients with leprosy. Methodology: this is study descriptive, exploratory and cross-sectional study from quantitative approach in the area enrolled in a Family Health Unit in Petrolina-PE city. The sample consisted of 11 patients with leprosy and 23 household contacts. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews. The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Instituto Materno Infantil Professor Fernando Figueira protocol n. 1701. Results: patients were mostly female with a diagnosis of paucibacillary. As for communicating data, it was realized that the age ranged between 18 and 74, with school level heterogeneity. It was noted that contacts had lived for a long period of patients with clinical forms of higher transmission power. Conclusions: it is essential to control the contacts of leprosy patients through effective performance of the team of family health. 
PY - 2011
EP - 1345–1352
T2 - Journal of Nursing UFPE on line [JNUOL / DOI: 10.5205/01012007]; 
TI - Relation of infection among household contacts and leprosy patients in Petrolina-PE city, Brazil
VL - 5
ER -