Quality of life of people with hansen's disease assisted in a reference hospital, Paraíba-Brazil

Objective: Evaluate the degree of impairment of the quality of life of people with Hansen's disease, according to social demographic and clinical variables Method: Descriptive, transversal, quantitative study, involving 45 patients from a reference hospital located in Joao Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil. For obtaining data, interviews were performed based on a semi-structured questionnaire, including social demographic and clinic variables of the participants; to evaluate their life quality the instrument Dermatology Life Quality Index was used, after approval in the Committee of Ethics in Research of the Federal University of Paraíba. In the data analysis, the nonparametric Test of the Chi-square of Pearson was used with level of significance of 5% (p