Volume 13 Issue 1
Sociodemographic and Behavioral Factors Influencing Public Awareness of Common Eye Diseases
1Dr Tanveer Ahmed, 2Dr Muhammad Naeem, 3Dr Zulfiqar Uddin Syed, 4Mohammad Younas Khan, 5Khizer Javed, 6Hammad Murad
1Assistant Professor Eye CMH Kharian Medical College Kharian Cantt
2Ophthalmology, Lady Reading Hospital Peshawar LRH
3Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, MMC General Hospital Peshawar
46Associate Professor Ophthalmology, Islamic International Medical College Trust / Riphah, International Hospital, Islamabad
5PIMS Islamabad
6UHS Lahore
ABSTARCT:
In Pakistan, there is a major increased morbidity and mortality occurrence of blindness combined with poor public knowledge of eye illnesses. The goal of this review was to assess the overall population’s knowledge, mentality, and habits about prevalent ocular disorders and eye care usage. Information was obtained crosssectional, with individuals drawn at randomly from five districts of Lahore. From June 2023 to june 2024, data was collected using a pre-tested question. Rasch research was used to transform the categorical scale to break–founded information, that is referred to as the “knowledge score” and runs from 4 to +4. To examine the data, evocative figures, linear regression, binary logistic reversion, too chi square examination remained used. 97.6 percent of the 2071 persons surveyed responded to the interviewer. The average age being 36.8 (12.5) years, the bulk was men (64.8%), and just 4.2 percent remained illiterate. The majority of responders (69.2 percent) were aware that blindness may be avoided, but were least knowledgeable about age-related macular degeneration (32.5 percent). Male sex (= 0.54 96 percent CI = 0.37, 0.67, p 0.002) and higher education (= 0.32 96 percent CI = 0.26, 0.38, p 0.002) were shown to be substantially linked higher level of knowledge in multivariate analysis. Eighty-three percent of our defendants had got the positive boldness toward health-looking for conduct, in addition these with adequate money on greatest instances remained 2.83 (AOR = 2.83 96 percent CI = 2.27, 3.63 p = 0.002) percent more likely than those with insufficient income. From all participants, 23.6 percent had an eye test at least once a year, and this incidence was substantially greater among younger people, females, those with a higher education, and those with a low social status (p 0.06). The general public of Pakistan had a greater consciousness around the deterrence of sightlessness also refractive fault, but a poor level of consciousness of blindness-producing eye disorders such as age-associated macular degeneration. Intensive increases in health literacy also public actions,