Leprosy “can be classified in degrees ranging from 0, when the sensory and motor functions are preserved; 1, indicating changes in sensitivity and/or muscle strength; and 2, in the presence of visible deformities resulting from the disease…”. 

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Leprosy is a “dermatoneurological disease that can cause physical disabilities in the face and in the upper and lower limbs, causing a series of problems, such as limitation to perform activities of daily living, reduced ability to perform work functions and restriction to participate in society”. 

Leprosy

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

Degrees of Leprosy

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.” 

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