Abstract

INTRODUCTION:VISUAL OUTCOME IN OCULAR TRAUMA INFLUENCED BY AVAILABLE SERVICES.WE TRIED TO STUDY VISUAL OUTCOME RELATED TO DISTANCE BETWEEN PATIENTS’ LOCATION TO TERTIARY EYE CARE CENTER

METHOD:IN THIS PROSPECTIVE COHORT STUDY WE COLLECTED TRAUMATIC CATARACT DATA IN PRE TESTED ONLINE FORMAT BETWEEN 2010 TO 2023.WE STUDIED DEMOGRAPHIC AND CLINICAL DATA BY SPSS22 USING DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS,CROSS TABULATION.

RESULT:OUR COHORT CONSISTED OF 1016 EYES WITH MEDIAN AGE OF 23 YEARS OUT OF WHICH 73% ARE MALE.CONSIDERING SOCIOECONOMIC CATEGORY,88% WERE FROM POOR CLASS, 92% WERE FROM RURAL AREAS.MEDIAN DISTANCE TRAVELLING TO BASE HOSPITAL IS 52 KILOMETERS,31.8% REPORTED FROM CAMPS AND 64.2% WERE REPORTED BY SELF.ONLY 14.4% REPORTED WITHIN 24 HOURS.WE DIDN’T FIND SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE IN VISUAL OUTCOME RELATED TO SOCIO ECONOMIC,HABITAT AND DISTANCE BUT SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE IS FOUND WITH REPORTING TIME.

CONCLUSION:TRAVELLING DISTANCE DOES NOT IMPACT VISUAL OUTCOME BUT REPORTING TIME DOES