Lei Yang, Ziyun Yang, Ying Xia
Relationship between negative coping style and fear of COVID-19 among Wuhan college students during the post-pandemic period: A moderated chain mediation model
Frontiers in psychiatry
globally least 1 billion people vision impairment could easily prevented easily treated cataract leading preventable treatable causes blindness bilateral low vision among adults despite leading cause preventable treatable blindness lack knowledge disease option treatment still major barrier reducing blindness owing cataract developing countries particularly ethiopia hence aim study determine level knowledge cataract associated factors among adults yirgalem town sidama national regional state southern ethiopia 2020 communitybased crosssectional study design conducted among randomly selected 599 adults age 18 years may 1030 2020 multistage sampling technique used select study participants data collected using pretested structured facetoface interview questionnaires collected data entered epi data version 31 exported spss version 21 analysis bivariable multivariable logistic regression used identify associated factors knowledge cataract adjusted odds ratio aor together 95 confidence interval ci used declare statistical association dependent independent variables total study participants 379 647 95 ci 607686 good knowledge cataract age 40 years aor 22995 ci 118444 elementary school completed aor 23195 ci 130410 high school aor 55595 ci 2811089 governmental nongovernmental employed aor 562 95 ci 2781138 merchant aor 17295 ci 103288 positive attitude aor 38595 ci 294647 positively significantly associated knowledge cataract whereas rural residence aor 019 95 ci 012031 negatively associated knowledge cataract one third participants still poor knowledge cataract implies health facilities engaged raises awareness community empowers people eye care needs