A study of Brazilian nurses caring for disabled persons with leprosy as covered in the article “Knowledge and attitude about disabilities in leprosy: Effects of an intervention grounded on the Meaningful Learning Theory” found that employing Ausubel’s Meaningful Learning Theory in teaching said nurses about leprosy care resulted in a statistically significant change. Before the employment of AMLT, no nurse “presented 100% of correct answers and, after the intervention, this rate of correct answers was obtained in 2 items of the knowledge construct and 3 of the attitude construct…”. 

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Brazil “holds 18.6% of all the recorded cases with disabilities in the world. Of the 311,384 new cases recorded in the country between 2009 and 2018, 85,217 (27.4%) already had grade 1 or 2 disabilities at the time of diagnosis.” 

Leprosy in Brazil

Santana, Emanuelle Malzac Freire de, Karen Krystine Gonçalves de Brito, Matheus de Medeiros Nóbrega, Ester Missias Villaverde Antas, Alana Tamar Oliveira de Sousa, and Simone Helena dos Santos Oliveira. “Knowledge and Attitude About Disabilities in Leprosy: Effects of an Intervention Grounded on the Meaningful Learning Theory.” Revista Da Escola De Enfermagem Da Usp 56 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1590/1980-220x-reeusp-2021-0474.

Knowledge and Attitude About Disabilities in Leprosy: Effects of an Intervention Grounded on the Meaningful Learning Theory

Care for people with Leprosy in Brazil and Meaningful Learning Theory

In a Brazilian study, “only nearly half of the professionals (50.8%)” knew the proper protocols for providing care to a person with leprosy, despite the aforementioned groups having worked as nurses for over 10 years. 

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