dc.contributor.author | Jay, Sarah | |
dc.contributor.author | Winterburn, Michael | |
dc.contributor.author | Choudhary, Ramesh | |
dc.contributor.author | Jha, Kiran | |
dc.contributor.author | Sah, Arbind Kumar | |
dc.contributor.author | O'Connell, Brenda H. | |
dc.contributor.author | O'Donnell, Aisling T. | |
dc.contributor.author | Moynihan, Andrew B. | |
dc.contributor.author | Muldoon, Orla T. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-03-05T08:50:46Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-03-05T08:50:46Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10344/9848 | |
dc.description | peer-reviewed | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Leprosy is endemic in Nepal and disproportionately affects the most marginalized. Leprosy related stigma can be characterized as a social curse, because those affected are excluded from group life and social participation which has severe implications for psychological health. The Nepal Leprosy Trust run a community-based self-help group intervention that aims to develop a new empowered identity to re-establish access to multiple group memberships' through social participation. In this applied cross-sectional study, informed by the Social Identity Model of Identity Change, we assess this intervention. Participants (N = 98) were members of self-help groups in 10 rural villages in Nepal, and completed measures of self-help group identification, access to multiple groups, internalized stigma and wellbeing. Mediation models indicated that self-help group identification was indirectly linked to reduced stigma and increased well-being through access to multiple groups. Supporting the Social Identity Model of Identity Change, we present novel evidence that group-based interventions can offer new valued identities that link to social cure resources, even in the most adverse circumstances. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | Wiley | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology;pp.1–12 | |
dc.subject | identity resources | en_US |
dc.subject | multiple groups | en_US |
dc.subject | self-help groups | en_US |
dc.title | From social curse to social cure: A self-help group community intervention for people affected by leprosy in Nepal | en_US |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | en_US |
dc.type.supercollection | all_ul_research | en_US |
dc.type.supercollection | ul_published_reviewed | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1002/casp.2510 | |
dc.contributor.sponsor | IRB | en_US |
dc.rights.accessrights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | en_US |
dc.internal.rssid | 2990148 |