“Whenever I tell her to wear slippers, she turns a deaf ear. She never listens”: a qualitative descriptive research on the barriers to basic lymphedema management and quality of life in lymphatic filariasis patients in a rural block of eastern India
Abstract Background Chronic lymphatic filariasis patients in Bihar, India, need management of lymphedema to live a disability-free life. For patients who have recurrent attacks of acute dermato-lymphangio-adenitis (ADLA), World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended simple home-based measures tha...
Main Authors: | Pragya Kumar, Shamshad Ahmad, Ditipriya Bhar, Ria Roy, Bhavna Singh |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2023-11-01
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Series: | Parasites & Vectors |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-023-06036-0 |
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