Eye diseases: The neglected health condition among urban slum population of Dhaka, Bangladesh
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10361-164632022-03-22T05:32:12Z Eye diseases: The neglected health condition among urban slum population of Dhaka, Bangladesh Sutradhar, Ipsita Gayen, Priyanka Hasan, Mehedi Gupta, Rajat Das Roy, Tapash Sarker, Malabika Brac James P. Grant School of Public Health Refractive error Cataract Visual impairment Bangladesh This article was published in the BMC Ophthalmology [© The Author(s). 2019 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ] and the definite version is available at: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12886-019-1043-z The Journal's website is at: https://bmcophthalmol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12886-019-1043-z#citeas Introduction: Globally, eye diseases are considered as one of the major contributors of nonfatal disabling conditions. In Bangladesh, 1.5% of adults are blind and 21.6% have low vision. Therefore, this paper aimed to identify the community-based prevalence and associated risk factors of eye diseases among slum dwellers of Dhaka city. Methods: The study was carried out in two phases. In the first phase, a survey was conducted using multistage cluster sampling among 1320 households of three purposively selected slums in Dhaka city. From each household, one family member (≥ 18 years old) was randomly interviewed by trained data collectors using a structured questionnaire. After that, each of the participants was requested to take part in the second phase of the study. Following the request, 432 participants out of 1320 participants came into the tertiary care hospitals where they were clinically assessed by ophthalmologist for presence of eye diseases. A number of descriptive and inferential statistics were performed using Stata 13. Result: The majority of total 432 study participants were female (68.6%), married (82.6%) and Muslim (98.8%). Among them almost all (92.8%) were clinically diagnosed with eye disease. The most prevalent eye diseases were refractive error (63.2%), conjunctivitis (17.1%), visual impairment (16.4%) and cataract (7.2%). Refractive error was found significantly associated with older age, female gender and income generating work. Cataract was found negatively associated with the level of education, however, opposite relationship was found between cataract and visual impairment. Conclusion: Our study provides epidemiologic data on the prevalence of eye diseases among adult population in low-income urban community of Dhaka city. The high prevalence of refractive error, allergic conjunctivitis, visual impairment, and cataract among this group of people suggests the importance of increasing access to eye care services. Published 2022-03-16T05:15:39Z 2022-03-16T05:15:39Z 2019 2019-01-31 Journal Article Sutradhar, I., Gayen, P., Hasan, M., Gupta, R. D., Roy, T., & Sarker, M. (2019). Eye diseases: The neglected health condition among urban slum population of Dhaka, Bangladesh. BMC Ophthalmology, 19(1) doi:10.1186/s12886-019-1043-z http://hdl.handle.net/10361/16463 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12886-019-1043-z en_US https://bmcophthalmol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12886-019-1043-z#citeas BMC Ophthalmology application/pdf BMC |
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This article was published in the BMC Ophthalmology [© The Author(s). 2019 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ] and the definite version is available at: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12886-019-1043-z
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Sutradhar, Ipsita Gayen, Priyanka Hasan, Mehedi Gupta, Rajat Das Roy, Tapash Sarker, Malabika |
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Eye diseases: The neglected health condition among urban slum population of Dhaka, Bangladesh |
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