Fahad Ghayyur, Junaid Faisal Wazir, Sadiq Ullah.
Profile of Amblyopia & Factors Responsible for Non-complianceb to Amblyopic Therapy at HMC, Peshawar..
Ophthalmol Update Jan ;15(4):351-3.

Purpose: To determine profile of amblyopia and factors responsible for noncompliance to amblyopic therapy amongst pediatric patients from age 5 to 15 years, reported in eye OPD Hayatabad Medical Complex Peshawar Pakistan. Study Design: The study was cross sectional, descriptive type accidental technique of sampling was adopted at Orthoptics room, in Eye OPD, Hayatabad Medical Complex Peshawar, at 6 months duration. Material and Methods: In this study all those children within the age 5-15 with amblyopia was included. The reduced visual acuity due to any other ocular problem was excluded. Visual acuity less than 6/12 due to refractive error was examined and did not show any improvement with pinhole. Reduced VA, not being improved due to strabismus, anisometropia mixed or combined, stimulus deprived, or idiopathic were declared as amblyopic with best corrected visual acuity less than 6/12 without any noticeable pathology. Results: In this study 126 patients were reported as amblyopic. Out of these (62%) were male and (38%) were female. Stimulus deprived were (10%), anisomertropic were 51 (40%), strabismus were (33%) mixed or combine amblyopia were (17%) were reported. Mean age of the patients was 11 + 2 Years, ranging from 5-8 years (36%), 9-12 years (26%) 13-15 Years (37%). Reason for noncompliance of regime acceptibility was (2.4%), accessibility to optometric care was (9%), affordability of care (glasses/patching/ surgery) was (11.9%), lack of awareness is about amblyopia (54.8%) and other causes (i.e cosmetic reasons rather than vision, first visit or late reported in clinic) (21.4%). Conclusion: Amblyopia was the major cause of ocular morbidity amongst children of age 5-15 years because this is the period to develop amblyopia so early.

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