September 07, 2023
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Celestin L, et al. Glaucoma information evaluation and dissemination utilizing faith-based meeting in a South Florida Haitian church neighborhood. Offered at: Girls in Ophthalmology Summer time Symposium; Aug. 24-27, 2023; Marco Island, Florida.
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MARCO ISLAND, Fla. — A survey distributed in a Haitian church in South Florida proved helpful for assessing glaucoma information of the neighborhood, in line with a poster on the Girls in Ophthalmology Summer time Symposium.
A subsequent academic intervention, adopted by a second administration of the identical survey, didn’t have a major affect on general information stage, “probably because of poor information retention,” Linda Celestin, COA, and colleagues from Bascom Palmer Eye Institute wrote within the poster.
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After a church service, the bishop distributed and browse aloud the survey, and 121 individuals answered the questions. The proper solutions had been then introduced. After just a few weeks, a analysis affiliate delivered a educating symposium, and 1 month later, the survey was administered once more. An analogous variety of individuals (123) crammed within the follow-up survey. Out of a most of 8 factors, the distinction within the imply rating between the preliminary survey and the follow-up survey was not statistically important. Just one query, associated to the upper danger for creating glaucoma after the age of 60 years, acquired a considerably greater rating within the follow-up survey.
Folks of African and Afro-Caribbean descents are at the next danger for creating glaucoma early, and one-third of those populations current for analysis with end-stage illness, the authors wrote. Growing glaucoma information is essential so sufferers search early remedy.
“Additional research would deal with totally different academic modalities (video, printed materials, and many others) and their impact on growing the neighborhood’s glaucoma information,” the authors wrote.
