Pattern of the health care practices about eye diseases: a community based study
Journal Title: International Journal of Medical Science and Public Health - Year 2017, Vol 6, Issue 1
Abstract
Background: Health care seeking behaviour is influenced by the availability and accessibility of health services. Dependent on these determinants and their interactions, health care seeking behaviour has been considered a complex outcome of many factors operating at individual, family, and community levels. Objective: To find pattern of the health care practices about eye disease. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study conducted in the rural field practices area of a tertiary care hospital. The purposive sampling was used to select the study subjects. A total of 160 subjects of age >18 years were studied from 5 villages. From the center of the community, each subsequent household was selected by counting the next 2 or 3 houses in a random direction until the number needed for that community was obtained. Again, the number of households counted and assigned to each community was based on their population size. Result: The choice of treatment for eye diseases was private (49.4%) followed by over the counter (32.5%) and government (18.1%). Out of those who had government choice, 51.7% had choice of PHC and 34.5% had CHC. The private hospitals (51%) were the main place of treatment for cataract followed by district hospital (14.3%). The main source of information about eye care services was relatives and friends (36.9%) followed by television (30.6%). Conclusion: There was less utilization of government health facilities in the care seeking of eye diseases among the rural population. Hence, there is a need to strengthen the community to utilize the government health facility through educating the community to have better treatment.
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Bhushan Kumar, Rajendra Kumar, Shivam Dixit
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- DOI 10.5455/ijmsph.2017.18062016552
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