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Soft contact lens wearers’ compliance during the COVID-19 pandemic
AIM: Contact lens wearers need to maintain optimal hygiene practices during the COVID-19 pandemic to minimise contact-lens complications including microbial keratitis and corneal infiltrative events. This online survey (UK and Ireland) explored contact lens wearers’ compliance behaviours, attitudes...
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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/PMC7427528/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32839091 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.clae.2020.08.003 |
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author | Vianya-Estopa, Marta Wolffsohn, James S. Beukes, Eldre Trott, Mike Smith, Lee Allen, Peter M. |
author_facet | Vianya-Estopa, Marta Wolffsohn, James S. Beukes, Eldre Trott, Mike Smith, Lee Allen, Peter M. |
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description | AIM: Contact lens wearers need to maintain optimal hygiene practices during the COVID-19 pandemic to minimise contact-lens complications including microbial keratitis and corneal infiltrative events. This online survey (UK and Ireland) explored contact lens wearers’ compliance behaviours, attitudes and concerns during the pandemic. METHOD: The 60-item anonymous online survey was distributed during a 1-month period via Qualtrics (starting on 14/04/20). The survey captured: a) demographic information, b) type of lenses worn and compliance with lens wear and care procedures, c) adherence to recommendations and d) concerns associated with contact lens wear during the pandemic. RESULTS: Two hundred and forty seven responses were received (34.3 ± 11.7 years old, 79% female). Seventy nine percent of participants reported that they were self-isolating or rigorously following social distance advice. Fifty-six percent of participants reported using their lenses less during the pandemic. Eighty-seven percent of respondents reported following the recommended 20-second rule most times/every time and 96% used soap and water during handwashing. Eleven percent of respondents admitted not following recommendations regarding disposal of lenses and 18% would not consider ceasing lens wear if unwell (with flu/cold) during the pandemic. CONCLUSION: Respondents reported wearing their contact lenses less than usual. Good compliance with handwashing was observed but soft reusable lens wearers showed a statistically significant lower compliance with lens wear and care compared to daily disposable lens wearers (p=<0.001). |
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spelling | pubmed-74275282020-08-14 Soft contact lens wearers’ compliance during the COVID-19 pandemic Vianya-Estopa, Marta Wolffsohn, James S. Beukes, Eldre Trott, Mike Smith, Lee Allen, Peter M. Cont Lens Anterior Eye Article AIM: Contact lens wearers need to maintain optimal hygiene practices during the COVID-19 pandemic to minimise contact-lens complications including microbial keratitis and corneal infiltrative events. This online survey (UK and Ireland) explored contact lens wearers’ compliance behaviours, attitudes and concerns during the pandemic. METHOD: The 60-item anonymous online survey was distributed during a 1-month period via Qualtrics (starting on 14/04/20). The survey captured: a) demographic information, b) type of lenses worn and compliance with lens wear and care procedures, c) adherence to recommendations and d) concerns associated with contact lens wear during the pandemic. RESULTS: Two hundred and forty seven responses were received (34.3 ± 11.7 years old, 79% female). Seventy nine percent of participants reported that they were self-isolating or rigorously following social distance advice. Fifty-six percent of participants reported using their lenses less during the pandemic. Eighty-seven percent of respondents reported following the recommended 20-second rule most times/every time and 96% used soap and water during handwashing. Eleven percent of respondents admitted not following recommendations regarding disposal of lenses and 18% would not consider ceasing lens wear if unwell (with flu/cold) during the pandemic. CONCLUSION: Respondents reported wearing their contact lenses less than usual. Good compliance with handwashing was observed but soft reusable lens wearers showed a statistically significant lower compliance with lens wear and care compared to daily disposable lens wearers (p=<0.001). British Contact Lens Association. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2021-08 2020-08-14 /pmc/articles/PMC7427528/ /pubmed/32839091 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.clae.2020.08.003 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 Vianya-Estopa, Marta Wolffsohn, James S. Beukes, Eldre Trott, Mike Smith, Lee Allen, Peter M. Soft contact lens wearers’ compliance during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title | Soft contact lens wearers’ compliance during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full | Soft contact lens wearers’ compliance during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_fullStr | Soft contact lens wearers’ compliance during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | Soft contact lens wearers’ compliance during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_short | Soft contact lens wearers’ compliance during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_sort | soft contact lens wearers’ compliance during the covid-19 pandemic |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7427528/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32839091 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.clae.2020.08.003 |
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