Predictors of attendance and barriers to cataract surgery in Kenya, Bangladesh and the Philippines

Disability and Rehabilitation

Volumn 35, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 1660-1667

  Syed, Alishbah ^a   Polack, Sarah ^b   Eusebio, Cristina ^c   Mathenge, Wanjiku ^b   Wadud, Zakia ^d   Mamunur, A K M ^e   Foster, Allen ^b   Kuper, Hannah ^b  

^a GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

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

^c Cataract Foundation of the Philippines   (Philippines)

^d Child Sight Foundation   (Bangladesh)

^e CSS Rawm Hospital   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; Blindness; Cataract surgery; Kenya; Low and middle income countries; Philippines

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; BLINDNESS; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; KENYA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PHILIPPINES; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BANGLADESH; BLINDNESS; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; KENYA; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PHILIPPINES; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84881363860     PISSN: 09638288     EISSN: 14645165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09638288.2012.748843     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Resnikoff S, Pascolini D, Mariotti SP, Pokharel GP. Global magnitude of visual impairment caused by uncorrected refractive errors in 2004. Bull World Health Organ 2008;86:63-70
2. Brian G, Taylor H. Cataract blindness - challenges for the 21st century. Bull World Health Organ 2001;79:249-56
3. Tabin G, Chen M, Espandar L. Cataract surgery for the developing world. Curr Opin Ophthalmol 2008;19:55-9
4. Foster A. Vision 2020: The cataract challenge. Community Eye Health 2000;13:17-19
5. Lewallen S, Courtright P. Recognising and reducing barriers to cataract surgery. Community Eye Health 2000;13:20-1
6. Eusebio C, Kuper H, Polack S, et al. Rapid assessment of avoidable blindness in Negros Island and Antique District, Philippines. Br J Ophthalmol 2007;91:1588-92
7. Mathenge W, Kuper H, Limburg H, et al. Rapid assessment of avoidable blindness in Nakuru district, Kenya. Ophthalmology 2007;114:599-605
8. Wadud Z, Kuper H, Polack S, et al. Rapid assessment of avoidable blindness and needs assessment of cataract surgical services in Satkhira District, Bangladesh. Br J Ophthalmol 2006;90:1225-9
9. Garap JN, Sheeladevi S, Brian G, et al. Cataract and its surgery in Papua New Guinea. Clin Exp Ophthalmol 2006;34:880-5
10. Wu M, Yip JL, Kuper H. Rapid assessment of avoidable blindness in Kunming, China. Ophthalmology 2008;115:969-74
11. Oye JE, Kuper H. Prevalence and causes of blindness and visual impairment in Limbe urban area, South West Province, Cameroon. Br J Ophthalmol 2007;91:1435-9
12. Mathenge W, Nkurikiye J, Limburg H, Kuper H. Rapid assessment of avoidable blindness in Western Rwanda: Blindness in a postconflict setting. PLoS Med 2007;4:1187-94
13. Brilliant GE, Lepkowski JM, Zurita B, Thulasiraj RD. Social determinants of cataract surgery utilization in south India. The Operations Research Group. Arch Ophthalmol 1991;109:584-9
14. Snellingen T, Shrestha BR, Gharti MP, et al. Socioeconomic barriers to cataract surgery in Nepal: The South Asian cataract management study. Br J Ophthalmol 1998;82:1424-8
15. World Health Organization. VISION 2020. The right to sight (global initiative for the elimination of avoidable blindness). WHO/PBL/97.61 Rev. 1, Geneva: WHO; 1997
16. Foster A. Cataract and "Vision 2020 - the right to sight" initiative. Br J Ophthalmol 2001;85:635-7
17. Kuper H, Polack S, Eusebio C, et al. A case-control study to assess the relationship between poverty and visual impairment from cataract in Kenya, the Philippines, and Bangladesh. PLoS Med 2008;5:1716-28
18. Polack S, Kuper H, Eusebio C, et al. The impact of cataract on timeuse: Results from a population based case-control study in Kenya, the Philippines and Bangladesh. Ophthalmic Epidemiol 2008;15: 372-82
19. Polack S, Kuper H, Wadud Z, et al. Quality of life and visual impairment from cataract in Satkhira district, Bangladesh. Br J Ophthalmol 2008;92:1026-30
20. Polack S, Kuper H, Mathenge W, et al. Cataract visual impairment and quality of life in a Kenyan population. Br J Ophthalmol 2007;91:927-32
21. World Health Organization. Programme for the Prevention of Blindness and Deafness. Coding instructions for the WHO/PBL eye examination record (version III). Geneva: WHO; 1988:1-17
22. WHO. Consultation on development of standards for characterization of vision loss and visual functioning. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2003
23. Rabin R, de Charro F. EQ-5D: A measure of health status from the EuroQol Group. Ann Med 2001;33:337-43
24. Shaheen R, Lindholm L. Quality of life among pregnant women with chronic energy deficiency in rural Bangladesh. Health Policy 2006;78:128-34
25. Jelsma J, Mkoka S, Amosun SL. Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) domains most valued by urban IsiXhosa-speaking people. Qual Life Res 2008;17:347-55
26. Grosh M, Glewwe P. Lessons from 15 years of the living standards measurement study. Designing household survey questionnaires for developing countries. Washington, DC: World Bank; 2000
27. Chibuga E, Massae P, Geneau R, et al. Acceptance of cataract surgery in a cohort of Tanzanians with operable cataract. Eye 2008;22:830-3
28. Athanasiov PA, Casson RJ, Newland HS, et al. Cataract surgical coverage and self-reported barriers to cataract surgery in a rural Myanmar population. Clin Exp Ophthalmol 2008;36:521-5
29. Rotchford AP, Rotchford KM, Mthethwa LP, Johnson GJ. Reasons for poor cataract surgery uptake - a qualitative study in rural South Africa. Trop Med Int Health 2002;7:288-92
30. Geneau R, Lewallen S, Bronsard A, et al. The social and family dynamics behind the uptake of cataract surgery: Findings from Kilimanjaro region, Tanzania. Br J Ophthalmol 2005;89:1399-402