Factors affecting guardians' decision making on clinic-based purchase of children's spectacles in Nigeria.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This study aims to understand the key factors influencing guardians' decisions when purchasing spectacles for their children in semi-urban and urban areas of Cross River State, Nigeria, where a spectacle cross-subsidisation scheme will be implemented.

Methods

This cross-sectional study was conducted among all consecutive guardians visiting the Calabar (urban), Ugep, Ikom and Ogoja (semi-urban) public eye clinics in Cross River State, southern Nigeria, from August 1 to October 31 2019, and whose children had significant refractive errors (myopia ≤-0.50D, hyperopia ≥1.50D, astigmatism >0.75D) and received spectacles. Guardians were interviewed using a questionnaire which included i) close-ended questions on reasons guardians choose to purchase spectacles for their c

SUBMITTER: Chan VF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8274875 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature