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Knowledge of glaucoma and associated factors among primary glaucoma patients in Kunming, China

BACKGROUND: To investigate the level of knowledge, attitude, and practices about glaucoma and associated factors among primary glaucoma patients in Kunming, China. METHODS: A hospital-based study was conducted on 93 patients from the First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University. Interview...

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Autores principales: Chen, Xi, Zhong, Yun-Long, Chen, Qin, Tao, Yi-Jin, Yang, Wen-Yan, Niu, Zhi-Qiang, Zhong, Hua, Cun, Qing
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8886968/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35227222
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12886-022-02322-0
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author Chen, Xi
Zhong, Yun-Long
Chen, Qin
Tao, Yi-Jin
Yang, Wen-Yan
Niu, Zhi-Qiang
Zhong, Hua
Cun, Qing
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Zhong, Yun-Long
Chen, Qin
Tao, Yi-Jin
Yang, Wen-Yan
Niu, Zhi-Qiang
Zhong, Hua
Cun, Qing
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description BACKGROUND: To investigate the level of knowledge, attitude, and practices about glaucoma and associated factors among primary glaucoma patients in Kunming, China. METHODS: A hospital-based study was conducted on 93 patients from the First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University. Interviewer-administered questionnaires were used to collect data after written informed consent. Data were analyzed by SPSS 19.0. Univariate and multivariate logistic regression models were used to identify factors. A Chi-square test was used to analyze the association between knowledge of glaucoma and medication compliance, Mann–Whitney U test was performed to assess the relationship between knowledge of glaucoma and quality of life in patients with glaucoma. P-value < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. RESULTS: Among 93 patients, 55 (59.14%) were aware of glaucoma, 48 (51.61%) had good knowledge of glaucoma, while 45 (48.39%) had poor knowledge. Younger age and duration of glaucoma were associated positively with knowledge of glaucoma. 87 (93.54%) patients got knowledge of their disease from doctors. 79.17% of respondents could use all the anti-glaucoma medications on time, out of which 54.17% had good knowledge of glaucoma while 25.00% had poor knowledge of glaucoma. 30.56% of respondents used to stop anti-glaucoma medications on their own out of which only 9.72% had good knowledge of glaucoma while 20.83% had poor knowledge of glaucoma. Patients with good knowledge of glaucoma had lower scores on the Glaucoma Quality of Life-15 questionnaire. Thus, the compliance to anti-glaucoma medications and glaucoma-related quality of life were better in patients with good knowledge. CONCLUSIONS: The level of knowledge of glaucoma among patients in Kunming is relatively low. Improving knowledge with suitable content for patients through effective multiple means such as the mass media rather than relying only on ophthalmologists may be a veritable first step in combating blindness from glaucoma and enhancing patients' quality of life. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12886-022-02322-0.
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spelling pubmed-88869682022-03-17 Knowledge of glaucoma and associated factors among primary glaucoma patients in Kunming, China Chen, Xi Zhong, Yun-Long Chen, Qin Tao, Yi-Jin Yang, Wen-Yan Niu, Zhi-Qiang Zhong, Hua Cun, Qing BMC Ophthalmol Research BACKGROUND: To investigate the level of knowledge, attitude, and practices about glaucoma and associated factors among primary glaucoma patients in Kunming, China. METHODS: A hospital-based study was conducted on 93 patients from the First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University. Interviewer-administered questionnaires were used to collect data after written informed consent. Data were analyzed by SPSS 19.0. Univariate and multivariate logistic regression models were used to identify factors. A Chi-square test was used to analyze the association between knowledge of glaucoma and medication compliance, Mann–Whitney U test was performed to assess the relationship between knowledge of glaucoma and quality of life in patients with glaucoma. P-value < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. RESULTS: Among 93 patients, 55 (59.14%) were aware of glaucoma, 48 (51.61%) had good knowledge of glaucoma, while 45 (48.39%) had poor knowledge. Younger age and duration of glaucoma were associated positively with knowledge of glaucoma. 87 (93.54%) patients got knowledge of their disease from doctors. 79.17% of respondents could use all the anti-glaucoma medications on time, out of which 54.17% had good knowledge of glaucoma while 25.00% had poor knowledge of glaucoma. 30.56% of respondents used to stop anti-glaucoma medications on their own out of which only 9.72% had good knowledge of glaucoma while 20.83% had poor knowledge of glaucoma. Patients with good knowledge of glaucoma had lower scores on the Glaucoma Quality of Life-15 questionnaire. Thus, the compliance to anti-glaucoma medications and glaucoma-related quality of life were better in patients with good knowledge. CONCLUSIONS: The level of knowledge of glaucoma among patients in Kunming is relatively low. Improving knowledge with suitable content for patients through effective multiple means such as the mass media rather than relying only on ophthalmologists may be a veritable first step in combating blindness from glaucoma and enhancing patients' quality of life. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12886-022-02322-0. BioMed Central 2022-02-28 /pmc/articles/PMC8886968/ /pubmed/35227222 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12886-022-02322-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/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/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://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.
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Chen, Xi
Zhong, Yun-Long
Chen, Qin
Tao, Yi-Jin
Yang, Wen-Yan
Niu, Zhi-Qiang
Zhong, Hua
Cun, Qing
Knowledge of glaucoma and associated factors among primary glaucoma patients in Kunming, China
title Knowledge of glaucoma and associated factors among primary glaucoma patients in Kunming, China
title_full Knowledge of glaucoma and associated factors among primary glaucoma patients in Kunming, China
title_fullStr Knowledge of glaucoma and associated factors among primary glaucoma patients in Kunming, China
title_full_unstemmed Knowledge of glaucoma and associated factors among primary glaucoma patients in Kunming, China
title_short Knowledge of glaucoma and associated factors among primary glaucoma patients in Kunming, China
title_sort knowledge of glaucoma and associated factors among primary glaucoma patients in kunming, china
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8886968/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35227222
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12886-022-02322-0
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