Ayanniyi A A, Olatunji F O, Adeboye A, Ayanniyi R O
Department of Ophthalmology, University Teaching Hospital, Ado Ekiti, Nigeria.
Niger Postgrad Med J. 2010 Jun;17(2):133-7.
Often the public cannot differentiate among eye care providers with adverse effect on ocular health. This is to ascertain awareness and knowledge of Nigerian public workers about eye care providers.
Structured self administered questionnaire on respondents' socio-demography, awareness and knowledge about eye care providers was distributed to 500 consenting public workers in Ilorin, Nigeria.
Four hundred and fifty one respondents, aged 20 to 57 years comprising 213 (50.8%) men and 206 (49.2%) women participated. Majority 348 (87.9%) had tertiary education while the remaining had at least primary education. Most respondents 392 (88.9%) were aware of the availability of eye care providers while 49 (11.1%) were unaware. Based on their knowledge of the eye care providers, three categories of respondents emerged: majority had correct perception, some had wrong perception and some knew nothing about eye care providers. The level of education was found to be significantly associated with the level of awareness and knowledge of the respondents (p< 0.05) while gender was not (p>0.05).
Despite the majority of the respondents having good perception of eye care providers, the respondents who had wrong perception and those who were oblivious of eye care providers could be draw backs to eye health care.
公众常常无法区分不同的眼保健服务提供者，这对眼部健康会产生不利影响。本研究旨在确定尼日利亚公职人员对眼保健服务提供者的认知和了解情况。
向尼日利亚伊洛林的500名同意参与的公职人员发放了一份关于受访者社会人口统计学、对眼保健服务提供者的认知和了解情况的结构化自填式问卷。
451名年龄在20至57岁之间的受访者参与了研究，其中包括213名男性（50.8%）和206名女性（49.2%）。大多数受访者348人（87.9%）拥有高等教育学历，其余受访者至少接受过小学教育。大多数受访者392人（88.9%）知晓眼保健服务提供者的存在，而49人（11.1%）并不知晓。根据他们对眼保健服务提供者的了解，出现了三类受访者：大多数人认知正确，一些人认知错误，还有一些人对眼保健服务提供者一无所知。研究发现，教育水平与受访者的认知程度和了解情况显著相关（p<0.05），而性别则无此关联（p>0.05）。
尽管大多数受访者对眼保健服务提供者有良好的认知，但那些认知错误和对眼保健服务提供者一无所知的受访者可能会对眼部保健造成不利影响。
