The Prevalence of Eye Disease in Asaba Specialist Hospital

The eye as organ of the visual system, mainly detect light and convert it into electro-chemical impulses in neurons. The aim of this study is to evaluate the prevalence of eye diseases in Asaba Specialist Hospital. A simple random sampling technique was used for selection of 700 sample sizes. Details of medical records of every patient that visited the ophthalmology unit of Asaba Specialist Hospital were used to obtain data for current study. The information of patients diagnosed with eye disease was retrieved and recorded in the data sheet; information collected includes gender, age, diagnosis, occupation and marital status. Data was analyzed with simple descriptive statistics and presented in frequency charts and tables using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). The results from this study showed that the prevalence of eye diseases in Asaba Specialist Hospital is in the following order: Allergic conjunctivitis (30%)> Refractive error (24.90%)> Bilateral cataract (11.43%) > Glaucoma (9.57%) > Bacterial Conjunctivitis (4.57%) > ocular allergy (4.29%) > corneal laceration (2.72%) > Pterygium (2.14%) > dry eye syndrome(1.71%) > diabetic ametropia (1.28%) > bilateral corneal opacity (1.14%). Study also determined prevalence of eye defects in sex and the average mean cases calculated revealed that eye diseases were had high prevalence in females (19.05±33.87) when compared to males (14.29±24.70). Conclusively, conjunctivitis had the highest index closely followed by refractive conditions with corneal opacity having the least occurrence.