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Awareness and knowledge among paramedical staff about glaucoma surgeries and post-surgery counseling – A questionnaire based study at a tertiary eye care center in Central Rural India

PURPOSE: To determine the level of awareness and knowledge about glaucoma surgery and post-surgery counseling amongst paramedical staff at a tertiary eye-care hospital. METHODS: This observational cross-sectional study included a random sample of 94 hospital personnel: 37 general nurse midwives, 47...

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Autores principales: Shakya, Rakesh, Ahluwalia, Navjot Singh, Shah, Chintan, Paul, Pulak, Jain, B K, Pandit, Kushal, Gupta, Ramesh KC, Ahlawat, Reena, Choudhary, Priyanka
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Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10228982/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36727365
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijo.IJO_1766_22
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author Shakya, Rakesh
Ahluwalia, Navjot Singh
Shah, Chintan
Paul, Pulak
Jain, B K
Pandit, Kushal
Gupta, Ramesh KC
Ahlawat, Reena
Choudhary, Priyanka
author_facet Shakya, Rakesh
Ahluwalia, Navjot Singh
Shah, Chintan
Paul, Pulak
Jain, B K
Pandit, Kushal
Gupta, Ramesh KC
Ahlawat, Reena
Choudhary, Priyanka
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description PURPOSE: To determine the level of awareness and knowledge about glaucoma surgery and post-surgery counseling amongst paramedical staff at a tertiary eye-care hospital. METHODS: This observational cross-sectional study included a random sample of 94 hospital personnel: 37 general nurse midwives, 47 ophthalmic assistants, and 10 patient caretakers (PCTs). Participants were administered a questionnaire about glaucoma surgery and post-surgery counseling of patients. RESULTS: The study included 41 (43.6%) females and 53 (56.4%) males. The mean age of the participants was 24.85 ± 4.54 years. All participants were aware of trabeculectomy surgery in glaucoma (100%). A total of 95.7% knew that surgery helps in controlling IOP, of whom 57 (60.6%) participants got information during their course of learning. Overall 53 (56.4%) believed that surgery is done when medication failure occurs, and 58 (61.7%) knew that surgery helps in preserving vision. A total of 63 (67.0%) participants knew to counsel patients to visit an ophthalmologist when called for and take the treatment as advised, whereas 74 (78.7%) correctly said to visit an ophthalmologist immediately if pain/diminution of vision/discharge occurs. Overall, PCTs were found to be having significantly better knowledge (P = 0.01) compared to others and they also reported ophthalmologists as the chief source of information. CONCLUSION: This study revealed that paramedical staff had an excellent awareness of trabeculectomy surgery. However, the knowledge and counseling parts of the questionnaire revealed less than satisfactory responses. So, there is a need to continuously educate paramedical staff members so that they can help in propagating information about the role of glaucoma surgery and the importance of proper follow-up.
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spelling pubmed-102289822023-05-31 Awareness and knowledge among paramedical staff about glaucoma surgeries and post-surgery counseling – A questionnaire based study at a tertiary eye care center in Central Rural India Shakya, Rakesh Ahluwalia, Navjot Singh Shah, Chintan Paul, Pulak Jain, B K Pandit, Kushal Gupta, Ramesh KC Ahlawat, Reena Choudhary, Priyanka Indian J Ophthalmol Original Article PURPOSE: To determine the level of awareness and knowledge about glaucoma surgery and post-surgery counseling amongst paramedical staff at a tertiary eye-care hospital. METHODS: This observational cross-sectional study included a random sample of 94 hospital personnel: 37 general nurse midwives, 47 ophthalmic assistants, and 10 patient caretakers (PCTs). Participants were administered a questionnaire about glaucoma surgery and post-surgery counseling of patients. RESULTS: The study included 41 (43.6%) females and 53 (56.4%) males. The mean age of the participants was 24.85 ± 4.54 years. All participants were aware of trabeculectomy surgery in glaucoma (100%). A total of 95.7% knew that surgery helps in controlling IOP, of whom 57 (60.6%) participants got information during their course of learning. Overall 53 (56.4%) believed that surgery is done when medication failure occurs, and 58 (61.7%) knew that surgery helps in preserving vision. A total of 63 (67.0%) participants knew to counsel patients to visit an ophthalmologist when called for and take the treatment as advised, whereas 74 (78.7%) correctly said to visit an ophthalmologist immediately if pain/diminution of vision/discharge occurs. Overall, PCTs were found to be having significantly better knowledge (P = 0.01) compared to others and they also reported ophthalmologists as the chief source of information. CONCLUSION: This study revealed that paramedical staff had an excellent awareness of trabeculectomy surgery. However, the knowledge and counseling parts of the questionnaire revealed less than satisfactory responses. So, there is a need to continuously educate paramedical staff members so that they can help in propagating information about the role of glaucoma surgery and the importance of proper follow-up. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2023-02 2023-02-02 /pmc/articles/PMC10228982/ /pubmed/36727365 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijo.IJO_1766_22 Text en Copyright: © 2023 Indian Journal of Ophthalmology https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Shakya, Rakesh
Ahluwalia, Navjot Singh
Shah, Chintan
Paul, Pulak
Jain, B K
Pandit, Kushal
Gupta, Ramesh KC
Ahlawat, Reena
Choudhary, Priyanka
Awareness and knowledge among paramedical staff about glaucoma surgeries and post-surgery counseling – A questionnaire based study at a tertiary eye care center in Central Rural India
title Awareness and knowledge among paramedical staff about glaucoma surgeries and post-surgery counseling – A questionnaire based study at a tertiary eye care center in Central Rural India
title_full Awareness and knowledge among paramedical staff about glaucoma surgeries and post-surgery counseling – A questionnaire based study at a tertiary eye care center in Central Rural India
title_fullStr Awareness and knowledge among paramedical staff about glaucoma surgeries and post-surgery counseling – A questionnaire based study at a tertiary eye care center in Central Rural India
title_full_unstemmed Awareness and knowledge among paramedical staff about glaucoma surgeries and post-surgery counseling – A questionnaire based study at a tertiary eye care center in Central Rural India
title_short Awareness and knowledge among paramedical staff about glaucoma surgeries and post-surgery counseling – A questionnaire based study at a tertiary eye care center in Central Rural India
title_sort awareness and knowledge among paramedical staff about glaucoma surgeries and post-surgery counseling – a questionnaire based study at a tertiary eye care center in central rural india
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10228982/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36727365
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijo.IJO_1766_22
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