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Assessing the Perceptions and Practices Toward Eye Injuries First Aid Among General Population in the Western Region of Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Study

Aim  The eye is a vital and extraordinarily perceptive part of the human body. A wide spectrum of possible outcomes from eye injuries, from temporary vision loss to permanent blindness. There is a lack of information about how to handle an eye injury. Education and raising awareness are the best way...

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Autores principales: Alhothali, Ammar S, Aljabri, Moayad K, Zamzami, Osama S, Althubaiti, Mohammed A, Alshanbari, Abdullah S, Alsaeedi, Abdullah K, Al-Ghamdi, Abdullah
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10112819/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37082505
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.36362
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author Alhothali, Ammar S
Aljabri, Moayad K
Zamzami, Osama S
Althubaiti, Mohammed A
Alshanbari, Abdullah S
Alsaeedi, Abdullah K
Al-Ghamdi, Abdullah
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Aljabri, Moayad K
Zamzami, Osama S
Althubaiti, Mohammed A
Alshanbari, Abdullah S
Alsaeedi, Abdullah K
Al-Ghamdi, Abdullah
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description Aim  The eye is a vital and extraordinarily perceptive part of the human body. A wide spectrum of possible outcomes from eye injuries, from temporary vision loss to permanent blindness. There is a lack of information about how to handle an eye injury. Education and raising awareness are the best way to prevent severe complications and eventual loss of vision. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to evaluate and assess general population knowledge and first aid practices regarding eye injuries in the Western Region of Saudi Arabia, focusing on the importance of early management. Methodology A cross-sectional questionnaire was administered among residents of western Saudi Arabia using a validated questionnaire. One thousand two hundred seventy-nine adults of both genders were randomly chosen to represent the sample. In December 2022, we used a web-based survey to gather our data. Result This study analyzed data from 1279 responses on the online platform. Results showed that good knowledge was significantly higher among females than males, those without a history of eye injury than their peers with injuries, and those with higher educational levels than those with lower educational levels. Additionally, good knowledge was predicted by the female gender (OR = 1.6, 95% CI, 1.3 to 2.1, p < 0.001). Conclusion The study found that public awareness of eye injury first aid was good in the western region. The role of physicians should be expanded and health education campaigns and social media are recommended to achieve the goal of reduction and limiting the most crucial damage to the most sensitive organ in the body.
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spelling pubmed-101128192023-04-19 Assessing the Perceptions and Practices Toward Eye Injuries First Aid Among General Population in the Western Region of Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Study Alhothali, Ammar S Aljabri, Moayad K Zamzami, Osama S Althubaiti, Mohammed A Alshanbari, Abdullah S Alsaeedi, Abdullah K Al-Ghamdi, Abdullah Cureus Ophthalmology Aim  The eye is a vital and extraordinarily perceptive part of the human body. A wide spectrum of possible outcomes from eye injuries, from temporary vision loss to permanent blindness. There is a lack of information about how to handle an eye injury. Education and raising awareness are the best way to prevent severe complications and eventual loss of vision. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to evaluate and assess general population knowledge and first aid practices regarding eye injuries in the Western Region of Saudi Arabia, focusing on the importance of early management. Methodology A cross-sectional questionnaire was administered among residents of western Saudi Arabia using a validated questionnaire. One thousand two hundred seventy-nine adults of both genders were randomly chosen to represent the sample. In December 2022, we used a web-based survey to gather our data. Result This study analyzed data from 1279 responses on the online platform. Results showed that good knowledge was significantly higher among females than males, those without a history of eye injury than their peers with injuries, and those with higher educational levels than those with lower educational levels. Additionally, good knowledge was predicted by the female gender (OR = 1.6, 95% CI, 1.3 to 2.1, p < 0.001). Conclusion The study found that public awareness of eye injury first aid was good in the western region. The role of physicians should be expanded and health education campaigns and social media are recommended to achieve the goal of reduction and limiting the most crucial damage to the most sensitive organ in the body. Cureus 2023-03-19 /pmc/articles/PMC10112819/ /pubmed/37082505 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.36362 Text en Copyright © 2023, Alhothali et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Alhothali, Ammar S
Aljabri, Moayad K
Zamzami, Osama S
Althubaiti, Mohammed A
Alshanbari, Abdullah S
Alsaeedi, Abdullah K
Al-Ghamdi, Abdullah
Assessing the Perceptions and Practices Toward Eye Injuries First Aid Among General Population in the Western Region of Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Study
title Assessing the Perceptions and Practices Toward Eye Injuries First Aid Among General Population in the Western Region of Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_full Assessing the Perceptions and Practices Toward Eye Injuries First Aid Among General Population in the Western Region of Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_fullStr Assessing the Perceptions and Practices Toward Eye Injuries First Aid Among General Population in the Western Region of Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_full_unstemmed Assessing the Perceptions and Practices Toward Eye Injuries First Aid Among General Population in the Western Region of Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_short Assessing the Perceptions and Practices Toward Eye Injuries First Aid Among General Population in the Western Region of Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_sort assessing the perceptions and practices toward eye injuries first aid among general population in the western region of saudi arabia: a cross-sectional study
topic Ophthalmology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10112819/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37082505
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.36362
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