Correction: The role of perceptions and knowledge of leprosy in the elimination of leprosy: A baseline study in Fatehpur district, northern India (PLoS Negl Trop Dis)

Abstract

There is an error in the fifth sentence in the Results sub-section Attitude, stigma and social distance. The correct sentence is: We found that participants who knew a person affected by leprosy had lower mean EMIC-CSS scores and therefore lower levels of perceived stigma, compared to participants who did not know a person affected by leprosy (14.2 vs 17.3, p<0.001, independent samples t-test). The seventh paragraph in the Discussion section misreports the study findings. The paragraph should read: In our study participants who knew a person affected by leprosy and those who were a close contact of someone affected perceived lower levels of stigma. Knowing a person affected also appeared to reduce the desire for social distance towards leprosy patients, but this effect did not quite reach statistical significance in the multivariate analysis. Nevertheless, it seems that knowing someone affected could potentially improve personal attitudes towards and reduce fear of person affected.