ABSTRACT Objective: To evaluate theoretical knowledge of medical students, medical residents and general medicine specialists in fundus examination. Methods: This cross-sectional study included three groups: third year medical students, interne medicine residents and general medicine specialists. The selection was based on the expected proficiency for each of the groups. Participants were invited by email. Two questionnaires previously translated and validated to Portuguese were applied: one to evaluate self-confidence with fundus examination with a 5-item Likert scale and a second to […]

ABSTRACT Objective To investigate if there is knowledge improvement over the Residency years, as well as students’ satisfaction about progress test. Finally, to describe the implementation of the online progress test in some Ophthalmological Residency programs in Brazil. Methods It was an observational cross-section study. The participants were all Ophthalmology residents who accepted to join the study. They did an online test and answered demographic and satisfaction questionnaires. Results Two hundred and fifty-nine residents joined the study. 42,86% of the […]

ABSTRACT Objective To identify eye conditions associated to social distancing and related increase in screen time exposure on children and teenagers. Methods Observational, descriptive and analytical study, with a cross-section design, carried out between July and August 2021, by questionnaire survey. Results Headaches related to excessive screen time exposure were reported by 26.51% of the students surveyed, while 38.8% reported suspect convergence insufficiency. Regarding the questionnaire about dry eye, 18.8% were symptomatic and 7.5% reported hard-to-manage symptoms. Computers were the […]

ABSTRACT Objective: To translate and validate the Adult Strabismus Quality of Life Questionnaire into Brazilian Portuguese. Methods: A cross-sectional study for linguistic and cross-cultural validation of the Adult Strabismus Quality of Life Questionnaire in order to assess the quality of life in patients with strabismus. We have followed previous published guidelines on translation process to ensure the equivalence between the original and translated versions. The final version was applied in a pilot study to evaluate concordance and its reliability and […]

ABSTRACT Objective: The purpose of this study was to develop and apply an online questionnaire to assess knowledge in Refractive Surgery in the analyzed population. Methods: An online questionnaire was applied to a population composed of 840 volunteer participants over 18 years of age. Results: The mean age of population was 37.85 years, of whom 60.1% were female. 20.95% of the participants reported having undergone previous eye surgery, 73.86% of which had a refractive objective. Among these, 73.08% were satisfied […]

ABSTRACT Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of text messaging in improving adherence to occlusion therapy for amblyopia. The secondary objective was to correlate the responses given in a self-reporting questionnaire with treatment outcome (improvement in visual acuity). Methods: This is a prospective, randomized, blinded clinical trial. The patients’ parents or legal guardians in the intervention group received text messages reminding them of the importance of patching. The control group received no text messages. At final evaluation, after a period of […]

ABSTRACT Purpose: To evaluate the quality of life of children with strabismus and understand their consequences in the functional and psychosocial aspects of the childhood. Methods: A semi-structured interview adapted of Adult Strabismus-20 questionnaire was conducted with parents or the legal responsible person of children aged between 3 and 13 years old attended at the public health care. A likert-scale of five points was used to measure the impact of strabismus in childhood, from psychosocial and functional aspects. Results: 97 […]

Abstract Objective: To develop and analyze the validity and reliability of a questionnaire to assess the knowledge of primary care physicians and nurses about trachoma. Methods: This is a methodological study of elaboration and analysis of validity and reliability of an instrument (questionnaire). The following steps were developed: 1) identification of updated source literature on the subject; 2) elaboration of the questionnaire items by the researchers; 3) content validation by experts; 4) construct validation with instrument application and hypothesis test […]