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Influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on contact lens wear in Spain
PURPOSE: To investigate the behaviour of contact lens (CL) wearers in Spain during the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: An anonymized web-based questionnaire was used to assess demographics, CL history, and activity, CL wear habits and perceived risk of infection due to CL wear during the COVID-19 pandem...
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British Contact Lens Association. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7366978/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32713774 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.clae.2020.07.002 |
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author | García-Ayuso, Diego Escámez-Torrecilla, Miguel Galindo-Romero, Caridad Valiente-Soriano, Francisco J. Moya-Rodríguez, Esmeralda Sobrado-Calvo, Paloma Di Pierdomenico, Johnny |
author_facet | García-Ayuso, Diego Escámez-Torrecilla, Miguel Galindo-Romero, Caridad Valiente-Soriano, Francisco J. Moya-Rodríguez, Esmeralda Sobrado-Calvo, Paloma Di Pierdomenico, Johnny |
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description | PURPOSE: To investigate the behaviour of contact lens (CL) wearers in Spain during the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: An anonymized web-based questionnaire was used to assess demographics, CL history, and activity, CL wear habits and perceived risk of infection due to CL wear during the COVID-19 pandemic. RESULTS: A total of 737 participants with an average age of 27.4 (±9.3) years completed the online questionnaire. The vast majority of respondents were soft CL wearers and reported at least two years of CL wear. Patients concerns about the increased risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection due to CL wear (40.6 % of participants) were significantly related (χ(2)(1) = 11.195, p < 0.05) to CL discontinuation (46 % of participants) during the COVID-19 pandemic. This fact joins the significant changes in the frequency of CL wear during the COVID-19 pandemic (χ(2)(4) = 31.982, p < 0.05), with a tendency to increase occasional CL wear from 29.1 % to 61.8 %. Interestingly, the majority of respondent (87.9 %) indicated that no professional had offered them information related to CL wear and COVID-19, and that they had not sought it on their own (82.2 %). CONCLUSION: There is a relationship between the perceived risk of infection and CL dropout during the COVID-19 pandemic, and a tendency to change the CL frequency of wear, with an increase in occasional CL wear. During the ongoing pandemic, eye care practitioners should reinforce CL patient education to minimize the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection and CL-related complications requiring clinical care. |
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spelling | pubmed-73669782020-07-20 Influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on contact lens wear in Spain García-Ayuso, Diego Escámez-Torrecilla, Miguel Galindo-Romero, Caridad Valiente-Soriano, Francisco J. Moya-Rodríguez, Esmeralda Sobrado-Calvo, Paloma Di Pierdomenico, Johnny Cont Lens Anterior Eye Article PURPOSE: To investigate the behaviour of contact lens (CL) wearers in Spain during the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: An anonymized web-based questionnaire was used to assess demographics, CL history, and activity, CL wear habits and perceived risk of infection due to CL wear during the COVID-19 pandemic. RESULTS: A total of 737 participants with an average age of 27.4 (±9.3) years completed the online questionnaire. The vast majority of respondents were soft CL wearers and reported at least two years of CL wear. Patients concerns about the increased risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection due to CL wear (40.6 % of participants) were significantly related (χ(2)(1) = 11.195, p < 0.05) to CL discontinuation (46 % of participants) during the COVID-19 pandemic. This fact joins the significant changes in the frequency of CL wear during the COVID-19 pandemic (χ(2)(4) = 31.982, p < 0.05), with a tendency to increase occasional CL wear from 29.1 % to 61.8 %. Interestingly, the majority of respondent (87.9 %) indicated that no professional had offered them information related to CL wear and COVID-19, and that they had not sought it on their own (82.2 %). CONCLUSION: There is a relationship between the perceived risk of infection and CL dropout during the COVID-19 pandemic, and a tendency to change the CL frequency of wear, with an increase in occasional CL wear. During the ongoing pandemic, eye care practitioners should reinforce CL patient education to minimize the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection and CL-related complications requiring clinical care. British Contact Lens Association. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2021-06 2020-07-17 /pmc/articles/PMC7366978/ /pubmed/32713774 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.clae.2020.07.002 Text en © 2020 British Contact Lens Association. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article García-Ayuso, Diego Escámez-Torrecilla, Miguel Galindo-Romero, Caridad Valiente-Soriano, Francisco J. Moya-Rodríguez, Esmeralda Sobrado-Calvo, Paloma Di Pierdomenico, Johnny Influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on contact lens wear in Spain |
title | Influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on contact lens wear in Spain |
title_full | Influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on contact lens wear in Spain |
title_fullStr | Influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on contact lens wear in Spain |
title_full_unstemmed | Influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on contact lens wear in Spain |
title_short | Influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on contact lens wear in Spain |
title_sort | influence of the covid-19 pandemic on contact lens wear in spain |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7366978/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32713774 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.clae.2020.07.002 |
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