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Patients’ Experience of Using Eye Drop Guide Device to Aid Self-Administration of Glaucoma Medications
PURPOSE: To determine the characteristics of the patients who preferred using the eye drop guide (EDG) regularly and their opinions toward the guide in order to select the patients for prescribing the EDG appropriately. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Fifty-seven glaucoma patients who completed the primary st...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7650028/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33177804 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/OPTH.S271673 |
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author | Sakiyalak, Darin Kobwanthanakun, Sirinya |
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description | PURPOSE: To determine the characteristics of the patients who preferred using the eye drop guide (EDG) regularly and their opinions toward the guide in order to select the patients for prescribing the EDG appropriately. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Fifty-seven glaucoma patients who completed the primary study, “The effect of ‘eye drop guide’ on the success rate of eye drop self-instillation in glaucoma patients”, were included. Patients’ instillation techniques, routine instillation or using the EDG, were chosen independently. After 4–6 months, they were interviewed about the frequency of EDG use and their rating scores toward the guide in 4 aspects including aiming aids, contamination prevention, reduction of drop waste, and ease of use. The differences in opinion scores between each frequency group and the factors associated with the regularity of EDG use were statistically analyzed. RESULTS: Of fifty-seven patients completing the interview, 19.3% used the EDG everyday, while 45.6% had never used the EDG. The nonusers rated significantly lower scores in all aspects (p-value < 0.005). From multivariate analysis, the factors associated with the preference not to use the EDG were administering in supine position (p-value < 0.001, adjusted OR 34.866, 95% CI 4.974–244.412) and more than one eye drop use (p-value = 0.048, adjusted OR 5.280, 95% CI 1.018–27.396). CONCLUSION: The EDG should be selectively prescribed for the particular patients who had one medication and performed instillation in sitting or standing position. Although the regular EDG users tended to have positive opinions on the EDG, their long-term compliance with the guide was underinvestigated. |
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spelling | pubmed-76500282020-11-10 Patients’ Experience of Using Eye Drop Guide Device to Aid Self-Administration of Glaucoma Medications Sakiyalak, Darin Kobwanthanakun, Sirinya Clin Ophthalmol Original Research PURPOSE: To determine the characteristics of the patients who preferred using the eye drop guide (EDG) regularly and their opinions toward the guide in order to select the patients for prescribing the EDG appropriately. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Fifty-seven glaucoma patients who completed the primary study, “The effect of ‘eye drop guide’ on the success rate of eye drop self-instillation in glaucoma patients”, were included. Patients’ instillation techniques, routine instillation or using the EDG, were chosen independently. After 4–6 months, they were interviewed about the frequency of EDG use and their rating scores toward the guide in 4 aspects including aiming aids, contamination prevention, reduction of drop waste, and ease of use. The differences in opinion scores between each frequency group and the factors associated with the regularity of EDG use were statistically analyzed. RESULTS: Of fifty-seven patients completing the interview, 19.3% used the EDG everyday, while 45.6% had never used the EDG. The nonusers rated significantly lower scores in all aspects (p-value < 0.005). From multivariate analysis, the factors associated with the preference not to use the EDG were administering in supine position (p-value < 0.001, adjusted OR 34.866, 95% CI 4.974–244.412) and more than one eye drop use (p-value = 0.048, adjusted OR 5.280, 95% CI 1.018–27.396). CONCLUSION: The EDG should be selectively prescribed for the particular patients who had one medication and performed instillation in sitting or standing position. Although the regular EDG users tended to have positive opinions on the EDG, their long-term compliance with the guide was underinvestigated. Dove 2020-11-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7650028/ /pubmed/33177804 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/OPTH.S271673 Text en © 2020 Sakiyalak and Kobwanthanakun. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This work is published and licensed by Dove Medical Press Limited. The full terms of this license are available at https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php and incorporate the Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/). By accessing the work you hereby accept the Terms. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed. For permission for commercial use of this work, please see paragraphs 4.2 and 5 of our Terms (https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php). |
spellingShingle | Original Research Sakiyalak, Darin Kobwanthanakun, Sirinya Patients’ Experience of Using Eye Drop Guide Device to Aid Self-Administration of Glaucoma Medications |
title | Patients’ Experience of Using Eye Drop Guide Device to Aid Self-Administration of Glaucoma Medications |
title_full | Patients’ Experience of Using Eye Drop Guide Device to Aid Self-Administration of Glaucoma Medications |
title_fullStr | Patients’ Experience of Using Eye Drop Guide Device to Aid Self-Administration of Glaucoma Medications |
title_full_unstemmed | Patients’ Experience of Using Eye Drop Guide Device to Aid Self-Administration of Glaucoma Medications |
title_short | Patients’ Experience of Using Eye Drop Guide Device to Aid Self-Administration of Glaucoma Medications |
title_sort | patients’ experience of using eye drop guide device to aid self-administration of glaucoma medications |
topic | Original Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7650028/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33177804 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/OPTH.S271673 |
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