A study on perceptions about eye health care and promoting factors for eye donation among medical students from a tertiary care teaching hospital
Journal Title: International Archives of Integrated Medicine - Year 2015, Vol 2, Issue 4
Abstract
Background: Voluntary eye donation depends on the awareness levels of various stakeholders in the community. Today’s medical students are tomorrow’s stakeholders of the community. Medical professionals can enhance eye donation rates by educating and motivating the relatives in case of patient's death. Aim: Hence the present study was undertaken with an objective of assessing the promoting factors for eye donation among medical students. Material and methods: The present descriptive cross sectional study was carried out among undergraduate students of a medical college in western Uttar Pradesh in the month of February 2014 using pretested self administered questionnaire. Results: 77% students knew about eye donation. 51% of them were willing to donate their eyes. Only 39% students knew that the ideal time for eye donation is within 6 hours of death. 64% had knowledge about vitamin A’s important role in prevention of childhood blindness. TV, newspaper or other media were the most important channels of getting information for majority (60%) of the students. Regarding perceived promoting factors for eye donation by them, noble cause (57%), pleasure to help the blind (51%) and inspired by advertisement on television (42%) were 3 top most promoting factors. Conclusion: Inclusion of different preventive and promotive aspects of corneal blindness along with basic eye health care into the course curriculum is the need of the hour.
Authors and Affiliations
Manpreet Kaur, Manjeet Singh Dhanda, Abhishek Singh, Bikramjeet Singh, Pooja Goyal, Shewtank Goel, Avinash Surana, Sanjeet Panesar, Anurag Ambroz Singh, Richa Chaturvedi, Lalit Kumar Singh
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