DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2022.v10i10.015

Pages: 1680-1685

Background: Now a day, dry eye disease (DED) is one of most common ocular disease and reason for primary eye care visit worldwide. Dry eye disease should be considered as an important public health problem deserving increased attention. As a rising public health concern, dry eye disease causing ocular distress, fatigue and visual disturbance that obstructs with quality of life, including aspects of physical, social, psychological functioning, daily activities as well as workplace productivity. Objective: The objective of this study was to assess the effect of dry eye disease on daily life and activities of the patients with dry eye diseases. Materials and Methods: This was a prospective observational study, conducted at the National Institute of Ophthalmology and Hospital (NIO & H), Dhaka, Bangladesh during the period from January 2003 to December 2004. In total 43 patients of dry eye diseases of several ages with proper documents were finalized as the study population. The study was approved by the ethical committee of the mentioned hospital. The proper written consents were taken from all the participants before starting the main part of intervention. Data were collected by predesigned questioner and analyzed by SPSS program. Results: We found the highest 30.23% (n=13) participants felt difficulties in driving at night. Besides this 27.91%(n=12), 25.58% (n=11), 20.93% (n=9), 18.60% (n=8), 11.63%(n=5), 9.30%(n=4), 6.98%(n=3), 4.65%(n=2), 4.65% (n=2), participants felt difficulties in reading small print out, reading newspaper, fill-up printed forms, viewing road signs, watching television, navigating stairs, cooking, playing chess/cards and driving at daytime respectively. In this study we found, among all the participants 3(6.98%) felt major difficulties, 8(18.60%) felt minor difficulties and 32(74.42%) felt no difficulty in reading newspaper. Conclusion: In this study, we found that symptomatic dry eye was significantly associated with a reduced ability .........