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The Impact of Glaucoma on the Mental Health of Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma Patients Attending a Teaching Hospital in South East Nigeria

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effect of glaucoma on the mental health of primary open-angle glaucoma patients using Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) MATERIALS AND METHODS: This was a hospital-based comparative study in which 180 glaucoma patients and controls 18 years and above who met the...

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Autores principales: Ubochi, Chinemerem C., Achigbu, Eberechukwu O., Nkwogu, Florence U., Onyia, Onyinye E., Okeke, Chiamaka J.
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Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9089806/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35558567
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jwas.jwas_59_21
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author Ubochi, Chinemerem C.
Achigbu, Eberechukwu O.
Nkwogu, Florence U.
Onyia, Onyinye E.
Okeke, Chiamaka J.
author_facet Ubochi, Chinemerem C.
Achigbu, Eberechukwu O.
Nkwogu, Florence U.
Onyia, Onyinye E.
Okeke, Chiamaka J.
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description OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effect of glaucoma on the mental health of primary open-angle glaucoma patients using Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) MATERIALS AND METHODS: This was a hospital-based comparative study in which 180 glaucoma patients and controls 18 years and above who met the inclusion criteria were selected consecutively in the Eye Clinic of Federal Medical Centre, Owerri, Imo State, in 2017. Data were collected using a questionnaire and the HADS protocol. All the participants underwent comprehensive ocular examination, and glaucoma was graded using visual field perimetric indices and mean deviation. RESULTS: The mean age for cases was 58.14 ± 13.88 years, whereas that of the control group was 57.19 ± 13.76 years. The majority of glaucoma respondents had the moderate form of the disease followed by the severe form. The glaucoma patients showed evidence of poor mental health with 59 (32.8%) of them anxious and 39 (21.7%) depressed compared to controls (P < 0.001). The mean scores for anxiety and depression were 6.02 ± 4.8 and 5.20 ± 4.5, respectively, for glaucoma patients, whereas those for the control group were 0.63 ± 1.8 and 0.64 ± 2.1, respectively (P < 0.001). There was no uniform correlation between the mental health of patients and the variables under study. CONCLUSION: Primary open-angle glaucoma affects the mental health of patients. This effect is worsened by the severity of the disease and influenced by the occupation and educational level of the patients. Multidisciplinary management of primary open-angle glaucoma patients is recommended.
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spelling pubmed-90898062022-05-11 The Impact of Glaucoma on the Mental Health of Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma Patients Attending a Teaching Hospital in South East Nigeria Ubochi, Chinemerem C. Achigbu, Eberechukwu O. Nkwogu, Florence U. Onyia, Onyinye E. Okeke, Chiamaka J. J West Afr Coll Surg Original Article OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effect of glaucoma on the mental health of primary open-angle glaucoma patients using Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) MATERIALS AND METHODS: This was a hospital-based comparative study in which 180 glaucoma patients and controls 18 years and above who met the inclusion criteria were selected consecutively in the Eye Clinic of Federal Medical Centre, Owerri, Imo State, in 2017. Data were collected using a questionnaire and the HADS protocol. All the participants underwent comprehensive ocular examination, and glaucoma was graded using visual field perimetric indices and mean deviation. RESULTS: The mean age for cases was 58.14 ± 13.88 years, whereas that of the control group was 57.19 ± 13.76 years. The majority of glaucoma respondents had the moderate form of the disease followed by the severe form. The glaucoma patients showed evidence of poor mental health with 59 (32.8%) of them anxious and 39 (21.7%) depressed compared to controls (P < 0.001). The mean scores for anxiety and depression were 6.02 ± 4.8 and 5.20 ± 4.5, respectively, for glaucoma patients, whereas those for the control group were 0.63 ± 1.8 and 0.64 ± 2.1, respectively (P < 0.001). There was no uniform correlation between the mental health of patients and the variables under study. CONCLUSION: Primary open-angle glaucoma affects the mental health of patients. This effect is worsened by the severity of the disease and influenced by the occupation and educational level of the patients. Multidisciplinary management of primary open-angle glaucoma patients is recommended. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020 2022-03-26 /pmc/articles/PMC9089806/ /pubmed/35558567 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jwas.jwas_59_21 Text en Copyright: © 2022 Journal of West African College of Surgeons https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Ubochi, Chinemerem C.
Achigbu, Eberechukwu O.
Nkwogu, Florence U.
Onyia, Onyinye E.
Okeke, Chiamaka J.
The Impact of Glaucoma on the Mental Health of Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma Patients Attending a Teaching Hospital in South East Nigeria
title The Impact of Glaucoma on the Mental Health of Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma Patients Attending a Teaching Hospital in South East Nigeria
title_full The Impact of Glaucoma on the Mental Health of Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma Patients Attending a Teaching Hospital in South East Nigeria
title_fullStr The Impact of Glaucoma on the Mental Health of Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma Patients Attending a Teaching Hospital in South East Nigeria
title_full_unstemmed The Impact of Glaucoma on the Mental Health of Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma Patients Attending a Teaching Hospital in South East Nigeria
title_short The Impact of Glaucoma on the Mental Health of Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma Patients Attending a Teaching Hospital in South East Nigeria
title_sort impact of glaucoma on the mental health of primary open-angle glaucoma patients attending a teaching hospital in south east nigeria
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9089806/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35558567
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jwas.jwas_59_21
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