Abstract

METHODS AND MATERIALS: A PROSPECTIVE COHORT STUDY WAS CONDUCTED , PATIENTS WITH OCULAR TRAUMA WERE ENROLLED FROM 2020-21. .CREATION OF FORMAT AND RETRIVAL OF DATA FROM EMR AND ANALYSED WITH SPSS 22. DESCRIPTIVE AND CROSS TABULATION USED FOR ANALYSES. P VALUE <0.05 CONSIDERED STASTICALLY SIGNIFICANT.
RESULTS: OUR COHORT CONSISTED OF 284 PATIENTS WITH OCULAR TRAUMA 29.23% , 70.77% M:F, MEAN AGE 29.37. VISUAL ACUITY AND VISION RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE WAS DOCUMENTED BEFORE AND AFTER MANAGEMENT OF OCULAR TRAUMA USING INDIAN VERSION OF VFQ. WE COMPAIRED VISUAL ACUITY PRE AND POST TREATMENT WE DID NOT FIND SIGNIFANT DIFFERENCE (P=0.11) BUT THERE WAS SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE WHEN WE COMPAIRED PRE AND POST TREATMENT VFQ SCORE (P=0.00)
CONCLUSION: THERE WAS NO SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT IN VISUAL ACUITY BUT SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT IN VISION RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE WAS OBSERVED AFTER TREATMENT OF PATIENT WITH OCULAR TRAUMA.

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