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‘I don`t need an eye check-up’. A qualitative study using a behavioural model to understand treatment-seeking behaviour of patients with sight threatening diabetic retinopathy (STDR) in India

Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) affects about 27% of patients with diabetes globally. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), DR is responsible for37 million cases of blindness worldwide. The SMART India study (October 2020-August 2021) documented the prevalence of diabetes, and DR in people40 y...

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Autores principales: Kumar, Shuba, Mohanraj, Rani, Raman, Rajiv, Kumar, Geetha, Luvies, Sanjay, Machhi, Shivani Sunil, Chakrabarty, Subhratanu, Surya, Janani, Ramakrishnan, Radha, Conroy, Dolores, Sivaprasad, Sobha
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Publicado: Public Library of Science 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10270603/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37319187
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0270562
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author Kumar, Shuba
Mohanraj, Rani
Raman, Rajiv
Kumar, Geetha
Luvies, Sanjay
Machhi, Shivani Sunil
Chakrabarty, Subhratanu
Surya, Janani
Ramakrishnan, Radha
Conroy, Dolores
Sivaprasad, Sobha
author_facet Kumar, Shuba
Mohanraj, Rani
Raman, Rajiv
Kumar, Geetha
Luvies, Sanjay
Machhi, Shivani Sunil
Chakrabarty, Subhratanu
Surya, Janani
Ramakrishnan, Radha
Conroy, Dolores
Sivaprasad, Sobha
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description Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) affects about 27% of patients with diabetes globally. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), DR is responsible for37 million cases of blindness worldwide. The SMART India study (October 2020-August 2021) documented the prevalence of diabetes, and DR in people40 years and above across ten Indian states and one Union Territory by conducting community screening. About 90% of people with sight threatening diabetic retinopathy (STDR) were referred from this screening study to eye hospitals for management, but failed to attend. This qualitative study, a component of the SMART India study, explored perceptions of referred patients regarding their susceptibility to eye related problems in diabetes and the benefits/barriers to seeking care. Perceived barriers from the viewpoint of ophthalmologists were also explored. Guided by the Health Beliefs Model (HBM), 20 semi structured interviews were carried out with consenting patients diagnosed with STDR. They included nine patients who had sought care recruited from eight eye hospitals across different states in India and eleven patients who did not seek care. Eleven ophthalmologists also participated. Four themes of analysis based on the HBM were, understanding of DR and its treatment, perceptions about susceptibility and severity, perceived barriers, perceived benefits and cues to action. Findings revealed poor understanding of the effects of diabetes on the eye contributing to low risk perception. Prohibitive costs of treatment, difficulties in accessing care services and poor social support were major barriers to seeking care. Ophthalmologists acknowledged that the absence of symptoms and the slow progressive nature of the disease deluded patients into thinking that they were fine. The study attests to the need for greater health literacy around diabetes, DR and STDR; for making treatment more affordable and accessible and for the development of effective patient education and communication strategies towards increasing compliance.
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spelling pubmed-102706032023-06-16 ‘I don`t need an eye check-up’. A qualitative study using a behavioural model to understand treatment-seeking behaviour of patients with sight threatening diabetic retinopathy (STDR) in India Kumar, Shuba Mohanraj, Rani Raman, Rajiv Kumar, Geetha Luvies, Sanjay Machhi, Shivani Sunil Chakrabarty, Subhratanu Surya, Janani Ramakrishnan, Radha Conroy, Dolores Sivaprasad, Sobha PLoS One Research Article Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) affects about 27% of patients with diabetes globally. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), DR is responsible for37 million cases of blindness worldwide. The SMART India study (October 2020-August 2021) documented the prevalence of diabetes, and DR in people40 years and above across ten Indian states and one Union Territory by conducting community screening. About 90% of people with sight threatening diabetic retinopathy (STDR) were referred from this screening study to eye hospitals for management, but failed to attend. This qualitative study, a component of the SMART India study, explored perceptions of referred patients regarding their susceptibility to eye related problems in diabetes and the benefits/barriers to seeking care. Perceived barriers from the viewpoint of ophthalmologists were also explored. Guided by the Health Beliefs Model (HBM), 20 semi structured interviews were carried out with consenting patients diagnosed with STDR. They included nine patients who had sought care recruited from eight eye hospitals across different states in India and eleven patients who did not seek care. Eleven ophthalmologists also participated. Four themes of analysis based on the HBM were, understanding of DR and its treatment, perceptions about susceptibility and severity, perceived barriers, perceived benefits and cues to action. Findings revealed poor understanding of the effects of diabetes on the eye contributing to low risk perception. Prohibitive costs of treatment, difficulties in accessing care services and poor social support were major barriers to seeking care. Ophthalmologists acknowledged that the absence of symptoms and the slow progressive nature of the disease deluded patients into thinking that they were fine. The study attests to the need for greater health literacy around diabetes, DR and STDR; for making treatment more affordable and accessible and for the development of effective patient education and communication strategies towards increasing compliance. Public Library of Science 2023-06-15 /pmc/articles/PMC10270603/ /pubmed/37319187 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0270562 Text en © 2023 Kumar et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Kumar, Shuba
Mohanraj, Rani
Raman, Rajiv
Kumar, Geetha
Luvies, Sanjay
Machhi, Shivani Sunil
Chakrabarty, Subhratanu
Surya, Janani
Ramakrishnan, Radha
Conroy, Dolores
Sivaprasad, Sobha
‘I don`t need an eye check-up’. A qualitative study using a behavioural model to understand treatment-seeking behaviour of patients with sight threatening diabetic retinopathy (STDR) in India
title ‘I don`t need an eye check-up’. A qualitative study using a behavioural model to understand treatment-seeking behaviour of patients with sight threatening diabetic retinopathy (STDR) in India
title_full ‘I don`t need an eye check-up’. A qualitative study using a behavioural model to understand treatment-seeking behaviour of patients with sight threatening diabetic retinopathy (STDR) in India
title_fullStr ‘I don`t need an eye check-up’. A qualitative study using a behavioural model to understand treatment-seeking behaviour of patients with sight threatening diabetic retinopathy (STDR) in India
title_full_unstemmed ‘I don`t need an eye check-up’. A qualitative study using a behavioural model to understand treatment-seeking behaviour of patients with sight threatening diabetic retinopathy (STDR) in India
title_short ‘I don`t need an eye check-up’. A qualitative study using a behavioural model to understand treatment-seeking behaviour of patients with sight threatening diabetic retinopathy (STDR) in India
title_sort ‘i don`t need an eye check-up’. a qualitative study using a behavioural model to understand treatment-seeking behaviour of patients with sight threatening diabetic retinopathy (stdr) in india
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10270603/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37319187
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0270562
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