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A STUDY ON PATIENT SATISFACTION INVOLVING THE ROLE OF ASSIGNED COUNSELOR FOR CATARACT SURGERY
Dr Sanila Rafique
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<p><strong><em>Objective: </em></strong><em>To quantify the satisfaction fostered after counseling and association of outcomes in alleviation of preoperative and post-operative anxiety, discomfort and risk apprehension whilst increasing the overall satisfaction among the cataract patients.</em></p>
<p><strong><em>Study Design: </em></strong><em>Retrospective study</em></p>
<p><strong><em>Materials and Methods: </em></strong><em>The study includes seventy patients with Pre-operative cataract. Out of</em></p>
<p><em>these patients thirty-five were provided with the counseling services in addition to their routine treatment and were allocated as intervention group. The other thirty-five respondents were offered the routine clinical treatment but no counseling and were designated as control group.</em></p>
<p><strong><em>Results: </em></strong><em>Prior and after the surgery, patients from intervention group employed convalescent sequel in terms of anxiety (P < .01) and their current satisfaction with experience (P < .01) together with the cooperativeness, which was found substantial in the intervention group, depicting the p <.01. On the contrary, patients in the intervention group had insignificant results in discomfort, risk apprehension and sleep quality in comparison to the respondents of the control group.</em></p>
<p><strong><em>Conclusion: </em></strong><em>This causal study indicated to us that recruitment of an assigned counselor could significantly enhance patient’s satisfaction and reduce patients’ pre-operative anxiety, discomfort and risk apprehension levels. It emphasizes the relevance of patient education and counseling in a cataract surgery setting. This could help to improve overall patient satisfaction by meeting his informational needs.</em></p>
<p><strong>Key Words: </strong><em>Anxiety, Counseling, Phacoemulsification, Satisfaction.</em></p>
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2021-01-19
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