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Eye care utilization among diabetics in the South African National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (SANHANES-1): a cross-sectional study
OBJECTIVE: Diabetes is a chronic disease of uncontrolled blood sugar levels. People with diabetes are at an increased risk of developing visual impairment and other diabetes-related visual complications. The study aims to determine the eyecare utilization pattern and its associated determinants amon...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7457475/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32867822 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-020-05245-5 |
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author | Akuffo, Kwadwo Owusu Asare, Akosua Kesewah Sewpaul, Ronel Dukhi, Natisha Kumah, David Ben Agyei-Manu, Eldad Addo, Emmanuel Kofi Reddy, Priscilla |
author_facet | Akuffo, Kwadwo Owusu Asare, Akosua Kesewah Sewpaul, Ronel Dukhi, Natisha Kumah, David Ben Agyei-Manu, Eldad Addo, Emmanuel Kofi Reddy, Priscilla |
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description | OBJECTIVE: Diabetes is a chronic disease of uncontrolled blood sugar levels. People with diabetes are at an increased risk of developing visual impairment and other diabetes-related visual complications. The study aims to determine the eyecare utilization pattern and its associated determinants among diabetics in the South African National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (SANHANES-1). RESULTS: The mean age of participants was 56.2 years and 66.6% were females. The prevalence of eyecare utilization among participants was 49.0% and this differed significantly by age groups (p = 0.024) and the number of years since diabetes diagnosis (p < 0.001). After statistical adjustments, older age (55–64 years OR = 4.18, p = 0.003 and ≥ 65 years OR = 4.78, p = 0.002), having health insurance (OR = 6.32, p = 0.002), and having had diabetes for 6–10 years (OR = 4.23, p = 0.005) were significantly associated with eye care utilization. About half of people diagnosed with diabetes in South Africa have had an eye examination since diabetes diagnosis, which is disturbingly low given the impact of diabetes complications on eye health. Government policies must be directed at ensuring access to affordable health insurance and eye health education on diabetes. |
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spelling | pubmed-74574752020-08-31 Eye care utilization among diabetics in the South African National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (SANHANES-1): a cross-sectional study Akuffo, Kwadwo Owusu Asare, Akosua Kesewah Sewpaul, Ronel Dukhi, Natisha Kumah, David Ben Agyei-Manu, Eldad Addo, Emmanuel Kofi Reddy, Priscilla BMC Res Notes Research Note OBJECTIVE: Diabetes is a chronic disease of uncontrolled blood sugar levels. People with diabetes are at an increased risk of developing visual impairment and other diabetes-related visual complications. The study aims to determine the eyecare utilization pattern and its associated determinants among diabetics in the South African National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (SANHANES-1). RESULTS: The mean age of participants was 56.2 years and 66.6% were females. The prevalence of eyecare utilization among participants was 49.0% and this differed significantly by age groups (p = 0.024) and the number of years since diabetes diagnosis (p < 0.001). After statistical adjustments, older age (55–64 years OR = 4.18, p = 0.003 and ≥ 65 years OR = 4.78, p = 0.002), having health insurance (OR = 6.32, p = 0.002), and having had diabetes for 6–10 years (OR = 4.23, p = 0.005) were significantly associated with eye care utilization. About half of people diagnosed with diabetes in South Africa have had an eye examination since diabetes diagnosis, which is disturbingly low given the impact of diabetes complications on eye health. Government policies must be directed at ensuring access to affordable health insurance and eye health education on diabetes. BioMed Central 2020-08-31 /pmc/articles/PMC7457475/ /pubmed/32867822 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-020-05245-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Note Akuffo, Kwadwo Owusu Asare, Akosua Kesewah Sewpaul, Ronel Dukhi, Natisha Kumah, David Ben Agyei-Manu, Eldad Addo, Emmanuel Kofi Reddy, Priscilla Eye care utilization among diabetics in the South African National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (SANHANES-1): a cross-sectional study |
title | Eye care utilization among diabetics in the South African National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (SANHANES-1): a cross-sectional study |
title_full | Eye care utilization among diabetics in the South African National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (SANHANES-1): a cross-sectional study |
title_fullStr | Eye care utilization among diabetics in the South African National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (SANHANES-1): a cross-sectional study |
title_full_unstemmed | Eye care utilization among diabetics in the South African National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (SANHANES-1): a cross-sectional study |
title_short | Eye care utilization among diabetics in the South African National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (SANHANES-1): a cross-sectional study |
title_sort | eye care utilization among diabetics in the south african national health and nutrition examination survey (sanhanes-1): a cross-sectional study |
topic | Research Note |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7457475/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32867822 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-020-05245-5 |
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