TITLE:
Profile of Low Vision Patients in a Resource-Poor Underserved Setting of a Developing Country
AUTHORS:
C. C. Eze, O. I. Okoye, O. Okoye, N. Nwachukwu, N. N. Okoloagu, E. N. Onwasigwe
KEYWORDS:
Low Vision, Profile, Nigeria
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Ophthalmology,
Vol.8 No.2,
May
21,
2018
ABSTRACT:
Objectives: To identify causes of low vision among the patients in the Eye clinic of University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH). Methods: This was a cross-sectional study of all new consecutive low vision patients seen at the eye clinic of University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital-(UNTH) Ituku-Ozalla. All patients with low vision were evaluated by the researcher and the findings entered on a research protocol. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics to generate frequency and percentage distributions and analytical statistics to test for significance of observed inter-group differences. In all comparisons, statistical significance was indicated by p