Regular provision of outreach increases acceptance of cataract surgery in South India

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1268-1275

  Finger, Robert P ^a,b   Kupitz, David G ^a   Holz, Frank G ^a   Chandrasekhar, Seetha ^c   Balasubramaniam, Bharath ^c   Ramani, Ramanathan V ^c   Gilbert, Clare E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c Sankara Eye Care Institutions   (India)

Author keywords

Cataract surgery; Healthcare systems research; India; Outreach screening; Patient perceived barrier

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; BLINDNESS; DISEASE PREVALENCE; FAMILY STRUCTURE; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH SERVICES; HOSPITAL SECTOR; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATARACT EXTRACTION; FAMILY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; INDIA; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; QUESTIONNAIRE; TREATMENT REFUSAL; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLINDNESS; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; COMMUNITY-INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; FAMILY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INDIA; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; VISION, LOW;

COIMBATORE; INDIA; TAMIL NADU;

EID: 80052885797     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2011.02835.x     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Athanasiov PA, Casson RJ, Newland HS et al. (2008a) Cataract surgical coverage and self-reported barriers to cataract surgery in a rural Myanmar population. Clinical & Experimental Ophthalmology 36, 521-525.
2. Athanasiov PA, Casson RJ, Sullivan T et al. (2008b) Cataract in rural Myanmar: prevalence and risk factors from the Meiktila eye study. British Journal of Ophthalmology 92, 1169-1174.
3. Bach M, Schulze-Bonsel K, Feltgen N, Burau H & Hansen L (2007) Numerical imputation of low vision states (author response), electronic letter. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Available from: reply, accessed 15 January 2009.
4. Bhat AK & Dhruvarajan R (2001) Ageing in India: drifting intergenerational relations, challenges and options. Ageing and Society 21, 621-640.
5. Brilliant GE, Lepkowski JM, Zurita B, Thulasiraj RD & The Operations Research Group (1991) Social determinants of cataract surgery utilization in South India. Archives of Ophthalmology 109, 584-589.
6. Commission on Social Determinants of Health (2008) Closing the Gap in a Generation - Health Equity Through Action on The Social Determinants of Health. World Health Organization Geneva.
7. Congdon N, Rao SK, Choi K et al. (2008) Sources of patient knowledge and financing of cataract surgery in rural China: the Sanrao study of cataract outcomes and up-take of services (SCOUTS), report 6. British Journal of Ophthalmology 92, 604-608.
8. Dandona L, Dandona R, Naduvilath TJ, Mccarty C & Rao GN (2000) Utilisation of eyecare services in an urban population in southern India: the Andhra Pradesh eye disease study. British Journal of Ophthalmology 84 22-27.
9. Finger RP (2007) Cataracts in India: current situation, access, and barriers to services over time. Ophthalmic Epidemiology 14, 112-118.
10. Finger RP, Ali M, Earnest J & Nirmalan PK (2007) Cataract surgery in Andhra Pradesh state, India: an investigation into uptake following outreach screening camps. Ophthalmic Epidemiology 14, 327-332.
11. Fletcher AE, Donoghue M, Devavaram J et al. (1999) Low uptake of eye services in rural India. Archives of Ophthalmology 117, 1393-1399.
12. Geneau R, Lewallen S, Bronsard A, Paul I & Courtright P (2005) The social and family dynamics behind the uptake of cataract surgery: findings from Kilimanjaro region, Tanzania. British Journal of Ophthalmology 89, 1399-1402.
13. Gyasi M, Amoaku W & Asamany D (2007) Barriers to cataract surgical uptake in the upper East region of Ghana. Ghana Medical Journal 41, 167-170.
14. Kuper H, Polack S, Eusebio C, Mathenge W, Wadud Z & Foster A (2008) A case-control study to assess the relationship between poverty and visual impairment from cataract in Kenya, the Philippines, and Bangladesh. PLoS Medicine 5, e244.
15. Lewallen S & Courtright P (2002) Gender and use of cataract surgical services in developing countries. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 80, 300-303.
16. Malhotra R, Uppal Y, Misra A, Taneja DK, Gupta VK & Ingle GK (2005) Increasing access to cataract surgery in a rural area - a support strategy. Indian Journal of Public Health 49, 63-67.
17. Medora NP (2007) Strengths and challenges in the Indian family. Marriage & Family Review 41, 165-193.
18. Murthy G, Gupta SK, John N & Vashist P (2008) Current status of cataract blindness and Vision 2020: the right to sight initiative in India. Indian Journal of Ophthalmology 56, 489-494.
19. Nirmalan PK, Pradmavathi A & Thulasiraj RD (2003) Sex inequalities in cataract blindness burden and surgical services in South India. British Journal of Ophthalmology 87, 847-849.
20. Nirmalan PK, Katz J, Robin AL et al. (2004) Utilization of eye care services in rural south India: the Aravind comprehensive eye survey. British Journal of Ophthalmology 88, 1237-1241.
21. Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner (2001) Census of India. Census data 2001: India at a glance. India.
22. Schulze-Bonsel K, Feltgen N, Burau H, Hansen L & Bach M (2006) Visual acuities "hand motion" and "counting fingers" can be quantified with the freiburg visual acuity test. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science 47, 1236-1240.
23. Vaidyanathan K, Limburg H, Foster A & Pandey RM (1999) Changing trends in barriers to cataract surgery in India. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 77, 104-109.
24. World Health Organization (2004) Cataract Surgical Rate Southeast Asia Region 2004. World Health Organization, Geneva.
25. World Health Organization (2008) World Health Report 2008: Primary Health Care Now More Than Ever. World Health Organization, Geneva.