Knowledge, beliefs, and practices regarding diabetic eye disease among patients with diabetes at the lions diabetic centre, university of calabar teaching hospital, Nigeria

Etim, Bassey; Nkanga, Dennis; Agweye, ChinezeThelma; Enang, Ofem; Ibanga, Affiong; Udoh, Martha-Mary E; Utam, Utam A

doi:10.4103/njo.njo_12_18

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“…The findings on the significance of other factors are consistent with previous studies. For instance, waiting time is a significant factor in patient receptiveness towards teleophthalmology (Momoh et al 2020); the significance of information and knowledge (Ramchandran et al 2020); experience (Sun et al 2020); and personal relationship with an ophthalmologist (Etim, 2018;Valikodath et al 2017). This study's implications are for the policymakers in Nigeria to formulate health policy that will focus more on the awareness of diabetic retinopathy disease in Nigeria and enlightenment campaign on teleophthalmology.…”

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confidence: 89%

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Investigating the Receptiveness Attitude of the Patient With Diabetes Retinopathy Towards the Use of Teleophthalmology

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International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications

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Research on the attitude of diabetes retinopathy's (DR) patients towards teleophthalmology as a branch of telemedicine has not been examined in developing countries. This article examines the receptiveness attitude of the patients with DR towards the use of teleophthalmology using 400 questionnaires to examine patients in Calabar DR screening center in Cross River State, Nigeria. The hypotheses were tested using multiple indicators multiple causes (MIMIC) as a special case of the structural equation modeling (SEM). The findings in this study indicated high cost and excess time negatively affects patient attitude, information, knowledge, and experience significantly and positively predict patients attitude towards teleophthalmology. Furthermore, the result of the paper shows that convenience and knowledge for 35.7 percent of the receptiveness of patients towards teleophthalmology. This study contributes by identifying that among other factors positive factors to enhance patient's receptive attitude to being diagnosis with diabetes retinopathy through telemedicine.

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confidence: 89%

“…Nevertheless, this study will examine the possible high and low levels of receptiveness among several telemedicine patients despite the quality of relationship and service that take place using both methods (Etim, 2018). Given this argument, it is hypothesized that:…”

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confidence: 99%