TY - JOUR
KW - Treatment
KW - Buruli ulcer
AU - Alferink M
AU - Werf T
AU - Sopoh G
AU - Agossadou D
AU - Barogui Y
AU - Assouto F
AU - Agossadou C
AU - Stewart R
AU - Stienstra Y
AU - Ranchor A
AB - abstract = {
Author SummaryDelay in seeking treatment for Buruli ulcer (BU) is a major challenge in current BU control. Research to date shows that several factors relate to delay, including a lack of knowledge about BU and its treatment, beliefs in a supernatural cause of the disease, feelings of fear and worry regarding the treatment, fear of surgery, direct and indirect costs, social isolation as a consequence of unbearable costs to the patients' family, a lack of confidence in the treatment, and stigma. This study focused upon the relationship between Illness perceptions and pre-hospital delay by using the Illness Perceptions Model of Moss-Morris et al in a sample of healthy community members living in 3 endemic areas for Buruli ulcer in Benin. We found that a chronic timeline perspective on Buruli ulcer and a higher perceived effectiveness of the treatment were independently associated with pre-hospital delay. The available dominant treatment modality in endemic areas (surgery or antibiotics) did not influence pre-hospital delay, a finding contrary to the previous suggestion that a fear of surgery would be related to delay in presenting to the hospital. This study has identified several individual characteristics which can form the basis of future interventions.
},
BT - PLoS Negl Trop Dis
CN - ALFERINK 2013
DA - 01
DO - 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002014
LA - eng
M1 - 1
N2 - abstract = {Author SummaryDelay in seeking treatment for Buruli ulcer (BU) is a major challenge in current BU control. Research to date shows that several factors relate to delay, including a lack of knowledge about BU and its treatment, beliefs in a supernatural cause of the disease, feelings of fear and worry regarding the treatment, fear of surgery, direct and indirect costs, social isolation as a consequence of unbearable costs to the patients' family, a lack of confidence in the treatment, and stigma. This study focused upon the relationship between Illness perceptions and pre-hospital delay by using the Illness Perceptions Model of Moss-Morris et al in a sample of healthy community members living in 3 endemic areas for Buruli ulcer in Benin. We found that a chronic timeline perspective on Buruli ulcer and a higher perceived effectiveness of the treatment were independently associated with pre-hospital delay. The available dominant treatment modality in endemic areas (surgery or antibiotics) did not influence pre-hospital delay, a finding contrary to the previous suggestion that a fear of surgery would be related to delay in presenting to the hospital. This study has identified several individual characteristics which can form the basis of future interventions.
},
PB - Public Library of Science
PY - 2013
EP - e2014
T2 - PLoS Negl Trop Dis
TI - Perceptions on the effectiveness of treatment and the timeline of Buruli Ulcer influence pre-hospital delay reported by healthy individuals
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1371%2Fjournal.pntd.0002014
VL - 7
ER -