Leprosy Mailing List – March 26, 2024
Ref.: (LML) Measuring socio-economic status in leprosy-affected communities?
From: Wim van Brakel, the Netherlands
Dear Pieter,
I would like to offer one comment on the discussion on SES measurement and the helpful contribution of Mr Sathish Kumar Paul (LML, March 24, 2024). He wrote "However, none of these scales include the leprosy impairments.". Perhaps I misunderstood what he meant by this, but I would propose that, when using SES measures or other measure in rehabilitation, it is very important that they are generic and do not include anything specific on leprosy. The socio-economic problems experienced by persons affected by leprosy are not unique to leprosy. A study on SES should therefore use generic and include a control group that is not affected by leprosy in which the same measure(s) can be used.
Kind regards,
Wim
LML - S Deepak, B Naafs, S Noto and P Schreuder
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