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The Awareness of The Risk of Chronic Use of Steroid Causing Cataract in Tabuke City, Saudi Arabia,2017

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Background: Cataracts could result in very dangerous consequences including worldwide blindness which imposes a great economic burden on people and health authorities. Objectives: Evaluate the knowledge of Saudi subjects in Tabuk City toward the cataract induced by chronic use of steroids. Methods: It is a cross sectional community survey based on a questionnaire sheet that was carried out among sample of adult subjects from different shopping malls, community pharmacists, coffees and masjids of Tabuk City from July to September 2017. Results: All the subjects have already heard about cataract and only 6.4% of them suffered from cataract. The most common source of knowledge among participants were relatives and friend (75.1%). Only 9.1% of the subjects used steroid therapy for long periods as 59.4% of them used topical steroids, followed by 20.3% by oral therapy. Most of the subjects (81.4%) showed inadequate knowledge about the steroid induced cataract. The older age had significant association with good knowledge.   Conclusion: The level of knowledge about risks factors of chronic usage of steroid therapy and its effects on cataract was inadequate among most of the subjects, although they were university graduates.

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10.12816/0043481

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Knowledge, Cataract, Chronic Steroid Therapy, Tabuk city

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Al Khozym Saeed

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Ali A

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Tabuk university

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70

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3

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2142

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2018-01-01

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2018-08-19

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2018-01-01

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426

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429

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1687-2002

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2090-7125

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The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine

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The Awareness of The Risk of Chronic Use of Steroid Causing Cataract in Tabuke City, Saudi Arabia,2017

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22 Jan 2023