Disability, Economic and Social Problem of Leprosy affected Persons in Phitsanulok Province, Thailand

Abstract

The purpose of this survey research was to describe the economic and social disabilities. And to identify factors related to leprosy's communities in Phitsanulok. A sample of 148 of participants was recruited from Leprosy's communities in Phitsanulok. The initial screening, 23 participant in this study. All participants were individually interviewed by the principal investigator in the Leprosy's communities conducted From 1985 to 2013 According to the results from the analyses of demographic data .The results showed that most participants age older than 60 years, had 4 grade education, unemployed, Occupied direlling, no venchicles, Landless and livestock. Characteristics similar differences in employment and debt. Participants were reciving treatment with MDT drug and disability in the second. As many are not getting the treatment continued. They did not maintain the cleanliness of the body evenly 60.87 %t have chronic mechanical disability of at least 1 at 82.60% without restrictions in social participation By using Independent-Sample T-Test and One way Anova analysis, two predictors were identified from ten predictor variables, and those two accounted for 30.44 % (p<0.05) of the variance in uncomfortable feeting and self-stigma. Seven variables were significantly correlated with feel the stigma. They were gender, age, marital status, education, occupation, family housing in here as family income, family debt, disability assory did not contribute to the variance in feel the stigma.