Journal article
Compliance with safety glasses wear in monocular children
Journal of pediatric ophthalmology and strabismus, Vol.30(4), pp.249-252
07/1993
DOI: 10.3928/0191-3913-19930701-07
PMID: 8410576
Abstract
Many ophthalmologists prescribe polycarbonate "safety glasses" to protect the remaining eye of monocular patients. Others do not routinely do so when the remaining eye is emmetropic since they feel compliance is poor. To evaluate compliance with safety glasses wear in these children, we reviewed the charts of all children (< 21 years old) treated with enucleation and followed at the University of Iowa by the Pediatric Ophthalmology Service between 1962 and 1991. Safety glasses were defined as polycarbonate lenses in a frame suitable for protective wear with spherical equivalent < or = -0.75 or < or = +2.00 diopters. Fifty-six patients were followed after enucleation. Forty-six of these patients met the inclusion criteria and 33 patients were available for follow up. Eighty-five percent of patients wear safety glasses > or = 50% of their waking hours; 61% wear them > or = 80% of the time; 33% wear them 100% of their waking hours. Twenty-one of the 33 patients participate in sports. One hundred percent of the female participants and 80% to 93% of the male participants wear safety glasses, goggles, or face shields during sports. Fifteen of the 33 respondents reported at least one potentially serious accident in which the safety glasses had protected the good eye. Compliance with safety glasses wear appears to be good in this population and may prevent injury to the remaining eye.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Compliance with safety glasses wear in monocular children
- Creators
- Arlene Drack - Department of Ophthalmology, the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City 52242Pamela J KutschkeSarah StairWilliam E Scott
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of pediatric ophthalmology and strabismus, Vol.30(4), pp.249-252
- Publisher
- United States
- DOI
- 10.3928/0191-3913-19930701-07
- PMID
- 8410576
- ISSN
- 0191-3913
- eISSN
- 1938-2405
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 07/1993
- Academic Unit
- Stead Family Department of Pediatrics; Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9983979910102771
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