01769nas a2200205   4500000000100000008004100001653001400042653001200056653001900068653001900087653001400106653002600120100001900146245010600165856016800271300001200439490000600451050002200457520108400479       2008                            d10aEducation10aleprosy10aHospital staff10aStigmatization10aKnowledge10aHealth Care Providers1 aEwhrudjakpor C00aHealth care providers knowledge as correlates of their attitudes towards leprosy sufferers in Nigeria  uhttp://www.krepublishers.com/02-Journals/S-EM/EM-02-0-000-08-Web/EM-02-2-000-08-Abst-PDF/EM-02-2-115-08-072-Ewhrudjakpor-C/EM-02-2-115-08-072-Ewhrudjakpor-C-Tt.pdf  a115-1200 v2  aEWHRUDJAKPOR 20083 aThis study was conceived against the hunches of seemingly inadequate knowledge and blatant
stigmatization of leprosy sufferers amongst health practitioners in Nigeria. It aimed at relating health workers
knowledge and consequent attitude towards leprosy patients. Five hundred and eighty seven health workers
comprising males and females drawn from government and private owned health care infrastructures participated
in this study. A knowledge-Attitude structured questionnaire was used to measure the relationship between the
respondent’s knowledge and attitude variables towards leprosy patients. Results using simple percentages and the
Statistical package for Social Science (SPSS) version 9, specifically the Pearson product moment correlation
confirmed that health workers’ above average knowledge of leprosy relates positively with attitudes towards
leprosy patients(r = 0.62, d.f = 585;<.05, two-tailed test). The Researcher suggested that knowledge be further
improved in order to sustain positive attitudes of health workers towards sufferers of leprosy.