Open AccessSpectacle compliance among adolescents in Southern India: Perspectives of service providers
Author(s) -
Anuradha Narayanan,
Shuba Kumar,
Krishna Kumar Ramani
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
indian journal of ophthalmology/indian journal of ophthalmology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.542
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1998-3689
pISSN - 0301-4738
DOI - 10.4103/ijo.ijo_27_18
Subject(s) - medicine , focus group , psychosocial , emmetropia , service provider , qualitative research , nursing , service delivery framework , feeling , service (business) , psychology , psychiatry , refractive error , social psychology , ophthalmology , marketing , economics , business , social science , economy , eye disease , sociology
Compliance to spectacle wear is vital to elimination of avoidable blindness among schoolchildren. This study aims to understand the barriers to compliance and strategies to overcome the barriers from the perspectives of the service providers of the school vision-screening model.