Wearing Pattern and Awareness About Contact Lens Wear in Secondary School Students in Kuala Lumpur.

IF 1.4 Q3 OPHTHALMOLOGY Clinical Optometry Pub Date : 2021-05-20 eCollection Date: 2021-01-01 DOI:10.2147/OPTO.S277786

Bariah Mohd-Ali, NorAisyah Azmi

{"title":"Wearing Pattern and Awareness About Contact Lens Wear in Secondary School Students in Kuala Lumpur.","authors":"Bariah Mohd-Ali, NorAisyah Azmi","doi":"10.2147/OPTO.S277786","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Purpose: To investigate the wearing pattern and awareness about contact lens care among secondary school students in Kuala Lumpur.Patients and methods: This is a cross-sectional study using self-administered validated questionnaires. A total of 2500 questionnaires were distributed to secondary school students (aged 13 to 18 years) from 5 selected schools in Kuala Lumpur. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the results.Results: A total of 987 completed questionnaires were returned and analyzed. The response rate was 39.5%. Mean age of respondents was 15.5±2.5 years with 54.6% females. Around 9.9% of the respondents were contact lens wearers with female majority (78.6%) and the main reasons for wearing contact lenses were cosmesis (42.8%) and comfort (32.7%). Majority (92.2%) were soft contact lens wearers and daily wear (monthly disposable) is the preferred modality. Nevertheless, 42.4% purchased their lenses from unlicensed vendors and 18.4% rinsed their lenses using tap water. Regarding contact lens care, more than 50% of the respondents were not aware about the correct way of handling contact lenses.Conclusion: Soft contact lens wear is popular among the secondary school students in Kuala Lumpur but the level of practice and knowledge about CL care are unsatisfactory. Thus, health communication strategies and aggressive public ocular health education that can influence behavior changes in teenagers are needed to overcome these issues.","PeriodicalId":43701,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Optometry","volume":"13 ","pages":"155-160"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4000,"publicationDate":"2021-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/d7/22/opto-13-155.PMC8290190.pdf","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Clinical Optometry","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2147/OPTO.S277786","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2021/1/1 0:00:00","PubModel":"eCollection","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"OPHTHALMOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Abstract

Purpose: To investigate the wearing pattern and awareness about contact lens care among secondary school students in Kuala Lumpur.

Patients and methods: This is a cross-sectional study using self-administered validated questionnaires. A total of 2500 questionnaires were distributed to secondary school students (aged 13 to 18 years) from 5 selected schools in Kuala Lumpur. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the results.

Results: A total of 987 completed questionnaires were returned and analyzed. The response rate was 39.5%. Mean age of respondents was 15.5±2.5 years with 54.6% females. Around 9.9% of the respondents were contact lens wearers with female majority (78.6%) and the main reasons for wearing contact lenses were cosmesis (42.8%) and comfort (32.7%). Majority (92.2%) were soft contact lens wearers and daily wear (monthly disposable) is the preferred modality. Nevertheless, 42.4% purchased their lenses from unlicensed vendors and 18.4% rinsed their lenses using tap water. Regarding contact lens care, more than 50% of the respondents were not aware about the correct way of handling contact lenses.

Conclusion: Soft contact lens wear is popular among the secondary school students in Kuala Lumpur but the level of practice and knowledge about CL care are unsatisfactory. Thus, health communication strategies and aggressive public ocular health education that can influence behavior changes in teenagers are needed to overcome these issues.

查看原文

微信好友朋友圈 QQ好友复制链接

本刊更多论文

吉隆坡中学生佩戴隐形眼镜的方式和意识。

目的：调查吉隆坡中学生佩戴隐形眼镜的模式和对隐形眼镜护理的认识：这是一项横断面研究，采用的是自填式有效问卷。共向吉隆坡 5 所选定学校的中学生（13 至 18 岁）发放了 2500 份问卷。结果采用描述性统计进行分析：共收回并分析了 987 份填写完毕的问卷。答复率为 39.5%。受访者的平均年龄为（15.5±2.5）岁，女性占 54.6%。约 9.9% 的受访者佩戴隐形眼镜，其中女性占大多数（78.6%），佩戴隐形眼镜的主要原因是美观（42.8%）和舒适（32.7%）。大多数受访者（92.2%）是软性隐形眼镜配戴者，日抛（月抛）是首选配戴方式。然而，42.4%的人从无牌商贩处购买镜片，18.4%的人用自来水冲洗镜片。在隐形眼镜护理方面，50% 以上的受访者不知道处理隐形眼镜的正确方法：结论：软性隐形眼镜在吉隆坡的中学生中很流行，但他们在隐形眼镜护理方面的实践和知识水平并不令人满意。因此，需要采取健康传播策略和积极的公众眼部健康教育，以影响青少年的行为改变，从而解决这些问题。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文去求助

来源期刊

Clinical Optometry OPHTHALMOLOGY-

CiteScore

3.00

自引率

5.90%

发文量

审稿时长

16 weeks

期刊介绍： Clinical Optometry is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal focusing on clinical optometry. All aspects of patient care are addressed within the journal as well as the practice of optometry including economic and business analyses. Basic and clinical research papers are published that cover all aspects of optics, refraction and its application to the theory and practice of optometry. Specific topics covered in the journal include: Theoretical and applied optics, Delivery of patient care in optometry practice, Refraction and correction of errors, Screening and preventative aspects of eye disease, Extended clinical roles for optometrists including shared care and provision of medications, Teaching and training optometrists, International aspects of optometry, Business practice, Patient adherence, quality of life, satisfaction, Health economic evaluations.