Patient Perspectives on Acquiring Spectacles

Abstract

Most people will pay eye care costs once barriers to seeking treatment have been broken via education and encouragement. Satisfaction of wearing spectacles was associated with improved vision; style, color, and fit of the spectacles; and protection from sunlight and dust. The proximity of and easy access to health facilities influenced patient desire to seek treatment.

Formative research for the development of an Eye Health Strategic Planning and Evaluation Framework and a Checklist: A health systems approach

“…Quality assurance is critical and affects two main areas of eye health services. Firstly, the quality of services has implications for the patients' vision quality, the patient‐provider relationships, and patients' satisfaction and secondly, their likelihood of recommending the services to others or returning themselves for further treatment …”

Barriers to the Utilization of Low-Vision Rehabilitation Services among Over-50-Year-Old People in East and Southeast Asian Regions: A Scoping Review

“…Of the 1662 articles, 81 were categorized as definitely relevant or possibly relevant. The full text of these 81 articles was reviewed and 18 promising articles [18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35] were extracted.…”

“…Of the 1662 articles, 81 were categorized as definitely relevant or possibly relevant. The full text of these 81 articles was reviewed and 18 promising articles [18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35] were extracted. Of the 18 articles, 4 [23,24,30,32] included only insufficient information on participants' ages and had ambiguity regarding whether the age of study participants met our Of the 18 articles, 4 [23,24,30,32] included only insufficient information on participants' ages and had ambiguity regarding whether the age of study participants met our inclusion criteria or not (≥50 years).…”

“…Two additional articles [36,37] were extracted through a manual search of the reference lists of 18 eligible articles. Finally, a set of 20 articles [18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37] was included as eligible articles for this scoping review. Detailed information extracted from each eligible article is provided in Table S2 (Supplementary Materials).…”

“…All five studies suggested that these factors could be barrier factors to LVR service utilization based on qualitative or descriptive analysis. Ormsby et al [31], through in-depth interviews and qualitative analyses, suggested that some myths or fears surrounding seeking treatment (society category) could be a barrier factor and that recommendations for attending the eye unit or vision center from health care staff could lower the barrier factors to obtaining access to eye care service (healthcare settings category). Tanaka et al [32] also reported that the change of law related to LVR services (society category) could extend the length of procedure for receiving the LVR service but could not influence the cost, frequency, and duration of LVR service utilization among Japanese individuals with vision impairments.…”