Evaluation of activity limitation and social participation, and the effects of reconstructive surgery in people with disability due to leprosy: A prospective cohort study

Disability and Rehabilitation

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 667-674

  Van Veen, Natasja H J ^a   Hemo, Dinabandhu A ^b   Bowers, Robert L ^b   Pahan, David ^b   Negrini, Jean François ^b   Velema, Johan P ^c   Richardus, Jan Hendrik ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Danish Bangladesh Leprosy Mission   (Bangladesh)

^c The Leprosy Mission International   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

activity limitation; disability; functioning; Leprosy; prospective follow up study; reconstructive surgery; social participation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CONVALESCENCE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISABILITY; DISABLED PERSON; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LEPROSY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; SOCIAL PARTICIPATION; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LEPROSY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; SOCIAL PARTICIPATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79956200654     PISSN: 09638288     EISSN: 14645165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09638288.2010.506238     Document Type: Article

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