Study of socio-demographic parameters for diabetic retinopathy awareness: A prospective study
Journal Title: International Journal of Medical and Health Research - Year 2018, Vol 4, Issue 6
Abstract
Background: Prevalence of Diabetic retinopathy (DR) in diabetic patients is estimated to be 12.2% to 18.03%. Diabetic retinopathy is one of the leading causes of preventable blindness in India. Aims and Objectives: To study socio-demographic parameters of patients having diabetic retinopathy awareness. Materials and Methods: 247 diabetic patients were studied who were referred to Bharti Hospital or Saraswati Nethralaya by physicians in the peripheral clinics in Karnal from Jan 2017 to December 2017. After noting socio-demographic details, all patients were asked to answer a pre-approved questionnaire. Results: Out of 247 patients, 137 (55.46%) had diabetic retinopathy awareness. Mean age of patients with diabetes awareness was 53.95±10.42 years. Most of the patients had diabetes duration of ≤5 years (46.55%). Among the patients who were aware of DR, most of them were female (71.53%), belonging to 41-60 age group (59.85%).Awareness was more in those who were graduate (33.57%), were self employed (39.41%),were married (75.18%) and had monthly-income between Rs.10001- Rs.25000 (52.55%). DR awareness was more in patients with longer duration of diabetes. Conclusion: DR awareness was more in female patients belonging to 4th to 6th decade of life, were married and had longer duration of diabetes.
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Dr. Salil Gupta, Ishaan Gupta, Dr. Sanjay Kalra
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