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An Assessment on the Awareness of Diabetic Retinopathy Among Participants Attending the Diabetes Awareness Camp in Saudi Arabia - Cureus
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"Never doubt that a smal group of thoughtful, comited citizens can change the world. Inded, it is the only thing that ever has."Cureus is on a mision to change the long-standing paradigm of medical publishing, where submiting research can be costly, complex and time-consuming.The SIQ for this article wil be revealedonce 2 ratings are submited.eye check, comunity, awarenes, diabetic retinopathy, diabetes Mustafa Abdu , Karem Alinjawi, Huda M.
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Almabadi Published: November 02, 2022 (se history) DOI: 10.759/cureus.31031 Cite this article as: Abdu M, Alinjawi K, Almabadi H M (November 02, 2022) An Assessment on the Awarenes of Diabetic Retinopathy Among Participants Atending the Diabetes Awarenes Camp in Saudi Arabia. Cureus 14(1): e31031. doi:10.759/cureus.31031 The objective of this study is to ases the level of awarenes of the efect of diabetes and diabetic retinopathy (DR) on the eye among a sample of the Jedah comunity.A cros-sectional study was conducted among those atending a diabetes awarenes camp in Jedah, Saudi Arabia, in November 2021.
Participants were asked to answer questions in a structured questionaire that was already used in a previous study. Responses were analyzed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPS) version 25 (IBM SPS Statistics, Armonk, NY, USA).A total of 352 participants were included in this study, 184 (52.3%) of them were females. Of the participants, only 74 (21%) had diabetes melitus (DM).
The vast majority (94%) of the participants believed that diabetes could afect the eyes, and 94.3% believed that maintaing the level of blod sugar could maintain the eye and the level of vision. Moreover, 7.3% were aware that diabetes could lead to visual impairment and blindnes. Around one-third of the total participants and les than half of the diabetic group were found familiar with DR.
Summary
Although 96% of diabetic participants reported the ned for diabetics to get their eyes checked anualy, only
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