What is it about?
Researches on the skin disease known as Buruli ulcer have generally been on the aetiology, the search for a cure and the consequences of the disease. This study focused on the experiences of people living with this disease, their identified problems and how best health care professionals and policy makers can support them to self-manage their condition.
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Why is it important?
Knowing the experiences of the people living with this devastating skin disease and understanding their problems will be the surest way to know what interventions there are to help them self-manage their condition and how best health care professionals and policy makers can give them the support they need.
Perspectives
It was a pleasure living with the participants who took part in the study FOR six months and then sharing the data/information with two professors who have done similar research. This publication will throw more light on the problems that people who have Buruli ulcer go through.
Alex Effah
University of Leeds
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This page is a summary of: Support needs of people living with Mycobacterium ulcerans
(Buruli ulcer) disease in a Ghana rural community: a grounded theory study, International Journal of Dermatology, October 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/ijd.13785.
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