Reasons reported for not accepting surgery by visual categories
| All (<6/18) (n=96) | Visual impairment and severe vision loss (<6/18–3/60) (n=47) | Blind (<3/60) (n=49) | RR (95%CI) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | ||||||||
| Economic | ||||||||||
| patient | 48 (50.0) | 20 (42.6) | 28 (57.1) | 1.34 (0.89–2.03) | ||||||
| guardian | 46 (50.6) | 18 (40.9) | 28 (59.6) | 1.46 (0.95–2.23) | ||||||
| agreement† | 0.88 | 0.93 | 0.83 | |||||||
| Logistics | ||||||||||
| patient | 43 (44.8) | 23 (48.9) | 20 (40.8) | 0.83 (0.53–1.30) | ||||||
| guardian | 36 (39.6) | 18 (40.9) | 18 (38.3) | 0.94 (0.56–1.56) | ||||||
| agreement | 0.81 | 0.82 | 0.81 | |||||||
| Fear | ||||||||||
| patient | 32 (33.3) | 16 (34.0) | 16 (34.0) | 0.96 (0.65–1.69) | ||||||
| guardian | 33 (36.3) | 18 (40.9) | 15 (31.9) | 0.78 (0.45–1.35) | ||||||
| agreement | 0.82 | 0.75 | 0.89 | |||||||
| Time | ||||||||||
| patient | 18 (18.8) | 12 (25.5) | 6(12.2) | 0.48 (0.20–1.17) | ||||||
| guardian | 11 (12.1) | 7 (15.9) | 4 ( 8.5) | 0.53 (0.17–1.70) | ||||||
| agreement | 0.89 | 0.91 | 0.87 | |||||||
| No faith | ||||||||||
| patient | 13 (13.5) | 8 (17.0) | 5 (10.2) | 0.60 (0.21–1.70) | ||||||
| guardian | 4 (4.4) | 2 (4.6) | 2 (4.3) | 1.07 (1.16–7.26) | ||||||
| agreement | 0.90 | 0.86 | 0.94 | |||||||
| Adequate vision | ||||||||||
| patient | 13 (13.5) | 10 (21.3) | 3 (6.1) | 0.29 (0.08–0.95) | ||||||
| guardian | 10 (11.0) | 7 (15.9) | 3 (6.4) | 0.40 (0.11–1.46) | ||||||
| agreement | 0.91 | 0.84 | 0.98 | |||||||
↵Test between vision groups; †number of patients and guardians with equal responses/total.