Determinants of Public Awareness, Attitudes, and Behaviors Related to Common Eye Diseases
1Dr Rizwan Shah, 2Dr Javed Butt, 3Muhammad Abdullah, 4Tahmoor Shahzad, 5Khizer Javed, 6Hammad Murad
1UHS Lahore
2PIMS Islamabad
3Haji Murad Trust Eye Hospital Gujranwala
4UHS Lahore
5PIMS Islamabad
6UHS Lahore
Vol: 16, Issue 02, 201-207
Received: August 25, 2025 Accepted: January 02, 2026 Published: January 21, 2026
ABSTARCT:
In Pakistan, there is a major increased morbidity and mortality occurrence of blindness combined with poor public knowledge of eye illnesses. The goal of this review was to assess the overall population’s knowledge, mentality, and habits about prevalent ocular disorders and eye care usage. Information was obtained cross-sectional, with individuals drawn at randomly from five districts of Lahore. From June 2023 to june 2024, data was collected using a pre-tested question. Rasch research was used to transform the categorical scale to break–founded information, that is referred to as the “knowledge score” and runs from 4 to +4. To examine the data, evocative figures, linear regression, binary logistic reversion, too chi square examination remained used. 97.6 percent of the 2071 persons surveyed responded to the interviewer. The average age being 36.8 (12.5) years, the bulk was men (64.8%), and just 4.2 percent remained illiterate. The majority of responders (69.2 percent) were aware that blindness may be avoided, but were least knowledgeable about age-related macular degeneration (32.5 percent). Male sex (= 0.54 96 percent CI = 0.37, 0.67, p 0.002) and higher education (= 0.32 96 percent CI = 0.26, 0.38, p 0.002) were shown to be substantially linked higher level of knowledge in multivariate analysis. Eighty-three percent of our defendants had got the positive boldness toward health-looking for conduct, in addition these with adequate money on greatest instances remained 2.83 (AOR = 2.83 96 percent CI = 2.27, 3.63 p = 0.002) percent more likely than those with insufficient income. From all participants, 23.6 percent had an eye test at least once a year, and this incidence was substantially greater among younger people, females, those with a higher education, and those with a low social status (p 0.06). The general public of Pakistan had a greater consciousness around the deterrence of sightlessness also refractive fault, but a poor level of consciousness of blindness-producing eye disorders such as age-associated macular degeneration. Intensive increases in health literacy also public actions, particularly among the elderly, men, and responders having lower levels of education, are considered necessary.
Keywords: Morbidity and Mortality, Common Eye Disease, Attitude, Practices.