Health-related quality of life and associated factors among Onchocerciasis patients in southeast Nigeria: A cross-sectional comparative study

Adah E. Otache; Ifeyinwa L. Ezenwosu; Edmund N. Ossai; Elias C. Aniwada; Emmanuel A. Nwobi; Benjamin SC. Uzochukwu

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0010182

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Health-related quality of life and associated factors among Onchocerciasis patients in southeast Nigeria: A cross-sectional comparative study

Adah E. Otache,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu State, Nigeria

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1646-1325

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Ifeyinwa L. Ezenwosu ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: ifeyinwaezenwosu32@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu State, Nigeria

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5235-292X

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Edmund N. Ossai,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki, Nigeria

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4098-4898

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Elias C. Aniwada,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu State, Nigeria
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Emmanuel A. Nwobi,

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu State, Nigeria
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Benjamin SC. Uzochukwu

Roles Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu State, Nigeria

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0794-0455

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Health-related quality of life and associated factors among Onchocerciasis patients in southeast Nigeria: A cross-sectional comparative study

Adah E. Otache,
Ifeyinwa L. Ezenwosu,
Edmund N. Ossai,
Elias C. Aniwada,
Emmanuel A. Nwobi,
Benjamin SC. Uzochukwu

Published: February 9, 2022
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0010182

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