title: People living with facial disfigurement after having had noma disease: A systematic review of the literature.
abstract: Noma disease often results in impairment, morbidity and severe facial disfigurement. This article reports a systematic review of literatures published between 2006 and 2015 to establish existing knowledge about social stigma associated with facial disfigurements. Five databases were searched and 114 citations were screened, of which only 15 met the relevant criteria. Titles and abstracts of the retrieved articles were independently reviewed. The research was heterogeneous; therefore, overall synthesis using meta-analysis was inappropriate. It can be seen that the review demonstrates that facial disfigurements are far more complex than was previously thought.
authors.affiliation: 1 Noma Children Hospital, Nigeria.
authors.forename: Imamatu Muhammad
authors.initials: IM
authors.lastname: Wali
authors.affiliation: 2 University of Bedfordshire, UK.
authors.forename: Krishna
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Regmi
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009625:Noma / Q000523:psychology*; D057545:Social Stigma
keywords: facial disfigurements; health psychology; musculoskeletal disorders; noma disease; psychological support; stigma