What do people with glaucoma know about their condition? A comparative cross-sectional incidence and prevalence survey
| Autor: | Narme C Deva, Carol Slight, Stuart C Carroll, Greg D. Gamble, Helen V. Danesh-Meyer, Ken Tarr, Yu Wee Tan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice medicine.medical_specialty genetic structures Population Glaucoma Blindness Patient Education as Topic Interquartile range Surveys and Questionnaires Ophthalmology Internal medicine Prevalence Humans Medicine Outpatient clinic education Aged Aged 80 and over education.field_of_study Information Dissemination business.industry Incidence Incidence (epidemiology) Odds ratio Middle Aged medicine.disease eye diseases Confidence interval Cross-Sectional Studies Quartile Health Resources Female business New Zealand |
| Zdroj: | Clinical & Experimental Ophthalmology. 36:13-18 |
| ISSN: | 1442-9071 1442-6404 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2007.01624.x |
| Popis: | Purpose: To assess and compare glaucoma knowledge between patients with established glaucoma, newly diagnosed glaucoma and the general population. Methods: 208 glaucoma patients, 100 newly diagnosed glaucoma patients from three clinical centres and 100 controls from non-ophthalmology outpatient clinics, were recruited and completed a validated self-administered true/false questionnaire assessing glaucoma knowledge. Demographic data were also recorded. Glaucoma knowledge score, out of a maximum of 22, and odds ratios (OR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI) of survey characteristics associated with falling in the lowest quartile of the overall knowledge score was evaluated for each study group. Results: Established glaucoma patients had (median 17, interquartile range 15–19) marginally but significantly (P |
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