Development and validation of a scale to assess attitudes of health care providers towards persons affected by leprosy in southern India.

• Main Authors: Govindarajulu Srinivas (Author), Shuba Kumar (Author), Rani Mohanraj (Author), Geethalakshmi Sekkizhar (Author), Thirumugam Muthuvel (Author), Vivek Lal (Author), Burkard Koemm (Author), Christa Kasang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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INTRODUCTION:Assessment of attitudes of health care professionals is important as negative attitude could constitute a major deterrent to care-seeking by persons affected by neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) such as leprosy. Leprosy continues to pose a major disease burden in India with an annual n...