Hospital Based Study: Ocular morbidity pattern among Patients attending a Private Hospital in Urban area of Kancheepuram city.(T.N.)
Journal Title: National Journal of Research in Community Medicine - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 3
Abstract
Background: Normal vision is essential for normal physical, mental, psychological development and education. The Visual impairment is a worldwide problem that has a significant socioeconomic impact. Objective: To study the pattern of ocular morbidity and its association with socio-demographic variables in urban population. Method: Hospital based study. A retrospective study was done by reviewing the case records of all patients attending the Private Hospital at Kancheepuram city from October 2015 to February 2016. Prior permission for reviewing the recorded data was taken from the institutional Chief. The case reports of total 1613 patients was included in the study using consecutive sampling method. Results: Prevalence of ocular morbidity was 53.0% with a significantly higher prevalence in females than males (56.2% vs 49.1%). Refractive errors were the major ocular morbidity (86.4%) followed by cataract (22.5%). The ocular morbidity was significantly more prevalent in people aged >60 years (98.5%) than <60 years (44.3%), illiterates (75.7%) than literates (58.2%), widows/widowers (96.0%) than others (50.1), clerk/shop owner group (69.0%) than other groups (63.6%), lower class (65.2%) than other socio economic classes (52.7) and general category (57.8%) than other caste categories (36.7%). Conclusion: The ocular morbidity was found to be significantly associated with the literacy status, occupation, marital status, socio economic status and caste of the individuals. Measures should be undertaken to render eye health education, awareness creation and motivational programmes.
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Rashmi Gaur Patel, Gopalkrishnan S . , sunil Patel
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