Study on Awareness and Knowledge Regarding Eye Diseases among Students of East West University

Abstract

The human eye is the organ which gives the sense of sight, allowing us to observe and learn more about surrounding world than we do other with our four senses. Eye is used for almost all activity we perform. That is why sight is sense that value more than all the rest. Because of four disease of eye which are cataract, glaucoma, night blindness and diabetic retinopathy many people lost their sight. Now a day’s diabetes patients are increased worldwide as well as diabetic retinopathy risk are also increased. In Bangladesh cataract is major eye condition due to lack of awareness. The aim of the study was to access the awareness and knowledge regarding major four eye disease. Total 400 students aged between 18-29, from East West University of different departments were participated in the study. They answered to a pre-structured questionnaire in which having heard of disease represent the “Awareness” definition of the disease represent the “Knowledge”. The awareness of Cataract according to the study was 88%, Glaucoma 57%, Night blindness 98%, Diabetic Retinopathy 72%. The knowledge about cataract was 46.32% and 70% knew about surgery but 55% didn’t know about IOL. In case of Glaucoma only 31% knew that glaucoma causes permanent visual loss. Majority of the students didn’t know who are at risk of Diabetic Retinopathy it was around 33.21%. It was also observed that students had minimum knowledge about the treatment of glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy. Analyzing the result it was seen that the awareness and knowledge regarding major four eye diseases among the students were not in satisfactory level. It is important to increase the knowledge and awareness for early detection of these four eye diseases.