The Internet as a Source of Information for Patients Prior to Rhinoplasty

Szychta, Paweł; Zieliński, Tomasz; Rykałą, Jan; Kruk-Jeromin, Julia

doi:10.3342/ceo.2011.4.3.131

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“…This is in contrast to other studies, which have reported significantly lower importance of the Internet; in one study, the Internet was the informal source of information in 23% of parents of children with ophthalmic diseases 6 and for 36.2% −58.1% in plastic surgery patients. 7,8 The relative importance of the Internet for the patients in our study could partially be explained by the relatively young patient age in our study (32.8 ± 8.6 years) as well as to the high Internet penetration in Poland.…”

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Information sources for patients undergoing corneal refractive surgery: results from a cross-sectional patient survey from a single private center in Poland

Kanclerz¹,

Przewłócka²

2021

Digit J Ophthalmol

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Purpose-To identify the information sources for patients undergoing laser vision correction.Methods-Individuals who underwent corneal refractive surgery at a private practice from December 2017 to August 2018 and agreed to complete an anonymous questionnaire were included. The manifest refraction and surgical method was recorded and correlated with the questionnaire results.Results-Data collected from 126 patients (mean age, 32.8 ± 8.6 years; 55.6% women) were analyzed. Of 121 patients, 120 (99.2%) identified the Internet as a source for information on refractive surgery, and 71 of 119 (59.7%) noted that the clinic's website influenced their choice of clinic. Patients with high myopia more commonly used contact lenses and had considered undergoing refractive surgery for a longer time compared with patients with other refractive errors (P < 0.01 and P < 0.01, resp.). Patients with hyperopia were less likely to know their own refractive error (P = 0.02).Conclusions-In this patient cohort, the Internet was the main source of information for those undergoing refractive surgery.

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Information sources for patients undergoing corneal refractive surgery: results from a cross-sectional patient survey from a single private center in Poland

Kanclerz¹,

Przewłócka²

2021

Digit J Ophthalmol

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“…Even people with heavy strain due to their appearance, have nevertheless a fear of the possible complications. Nowadays, before such an operation, most people made an internet research 16 and read medical texts about such risks. A survey on behalf of the Federal Institute for food and agriculture 17 found that every fifth cosmetic operation in Germany is associated with complications (22% women, 8% men).…”

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Reasons for Preventing Us to Get More Attractive: the Fear of Aesthetic Surgery

Leitermann¹,

Hoffmann²,

Kasten³

2016

HSS

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BACKGROUNDNowadays, with the help of cosmetic surgery almost every woman and man can achieve a highly attractive appearance. The question is, why so many people do not take advantage of these opportunities? This pilot-study investigates individual attitudes of people towards aesthetic plastic surgery. METHODSA questionnaire was developed which combined self-developed items for a measurement of attitudes towards plastic surgery. In addition, items of the “Freiburger Personality Inventory” (FPI-R) were used. The study was conducted in Hamburg/Germany. 104One hundred and four test persons participated in the survey (81 females, 23 males, age 20-30 years). Eighty six of the participants (82.7%) had an A-level as degree of education, 14.4% achieved the secondary school certificate and 2.9% had completed their bachelor on a high school. RESULTSThe data supported the hypothesis that people who are unsatisfied with their body appearance showed more willingness for a surgical intervention. On the other hand, fear of complications and pain as far as anxiety before an unsatisfactory result hinders them from a decision for an intervention. Significant correlations with regard to extraversion-introversion and the education level were not found. Females showed more willingness regarding an intervention than men. Gender-specific differences concerning the cost factor were not found. CONCLUSIONInterestingly more than 65% of the total sample felt dissatisfaction with a specific body part and are thus target of aesthetic surgery. The yellow press often reports about failed cosmetic surgery, especially in VIP-persons. Aesthetic surgery should keep working to reduce unwarranted fears of people toward these kinds of operations.

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“…Useful information for model selection can be obtained from using AIC and BIC together, particularly from trying as far as possible to find models favoured by both criteria. Quantitatively, the BIC puts more penalty on the log-likelihood function and the BIC favours more parsimonious models [ 28 ]. In the present study the neighbourhood-based Poisson regression was favoured by AIC, BIC and adjusted pseudo R 2 indices, although the distance-based Poisson model was closer to the neighbourhood-based GLMM results than was the nonspatial Poisson regression.…”

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A poisson regression approach for modelling spatial autocorrelation between geographically referenced observations

Mohebbi

Wolfe

Jolley

2011

BMC Med Res Methodol

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BackgroundAnalytic methods commonly used in epidemiology do not account for spatial correlation between observations. In regression analyses, omission of that autocorrelation can bias parameter estimates and yield incorrect standard error estimates.MethodsWe used age standardised incidence ratios (SIRs) of esophageal cancer (EC) from the Babol cancer registry from 2001 to 2005, and extracted socioeconomic indices from the Statistical Centre of Iran. The following models for SIR were used: (1) Poisson regression with agglomeration-specific nonspatial random effects; (2) Poisson regression with agglomeration-specific spatial random effects. Distance-based and neighbourhood-based autocorrelation structures were used for defining the spatial random effects and a pseudolikelihood approach was applied to estimate model parameters. The Bayesian information criterion (BIC), Akaike's information criterion (AIC) and adjusted pseudo R2, were used for model comparison.ResultsA Gaussian semivariogram with an effective range of 225 km best fit spatial autocorrelation in agglomeration-level EC incidence. The Moran's I index was greater than its expected value indicating systematic geographical clustering of EC. The distance-based and neighbourhood-based Poisson regression estimates were generally similar. When residual spatial dependence was modelled, point and interval estimates of covariate effects were different to those obtained from the nonspatial Poisson model.ConclusionsThe spatial pattern evident in the EC SIR and the observation that point estimates and standard errors differed depending on the modelling approach indicate the importance of accounting for residual spatial correlation in analyses of EC incidence in the Caspian region of Iran. Our results also illustrate that spatial smoothing must be applied with care.

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The Internet as a Source of Information for Patients Prior to Rhinoplasty

Cited by 9 publications

References 8 publications

Information sources for patients undergoing corneal refractive surgery: results from a cross-sectional patient survey from a single private center in Poland

Information sources for patients undergoing corneal refractive surgery: results from a cross-sectional patient survey from a single private center in Poland

Reasons for Preventing Us to Get More Attractive: the Fear of Aesthetic Surgery

A poisson regression approach for modelling spatial autocorrelation between geographically referenced observations

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