Shoaib Ahmad, Muhammad Ali, Muhammad Bilal Afzal.
Knowledge and Attitudes toward Corneal Donation amongst Medical Students in University of Lahore (a cross-sectional study).
Ophthalmol Update Jan ;16(1):465-8.

Background: Corneal transplantation or keratoplasty has developed rapidly in the past 10 years. Penetrating keratoplasty, a procedure consisting of full-thickness replacement of the cornea, has been the dominant procedure for more than half a century, and successfully caters to most causes of corneal blindness. Objective: To study the perception and knowledge about corneal transplant amongst young generation. Methodology: A cross sectional study was conducted n medical students. Sample of 200 people was collected through non probability convenient based sampling method and a closed ended questionnaire was filled to people. Results: The results showed that majority (75%) of students knew that eyes can be donated after death but only 20% knew that the ideal time of donation was within 6 hours of death. Most of the participants (70%) were willing of donating eyes. Perceived reasons for not pledging eyes by the students as unacceptable idea of separating the eyes from the body (30.9%), lack of awareness (29.8%), objection by family members (28.5%), and religious beliefs (12.7%). Conclusion: It was concluded that most of the students know about eye donation but they do not like to donate the eye because of their own belief, family influence or lack of awareness and needs creation of awareness about eye donation in the community.

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