Research progress of awareness of glaucoma / 中华实验眼科杂志

ABSTRACT

Glaucoma is one of the major causes of blindness worldwide.The symptom of glaucoma is not obvious and the rate of blindness is quite high in glaucoma.Over 90％ of the glaucoma patients were unaware about the disease.Increasing awareness of glaucoma will promote the patients to find the sign of glaucoma and will thereby prevent blindness due to glaucoma.Increasing awareness of glaucoma is the most effective way of early detection,early diagnosis,timely treatment and rescuing surviving visual function in glaucoma patients.Many scholars have done a lot of researches on awareness of glaucoma.This article reviewed recent researches on the awareness of glaucoma,including the actuality of glaucoma awareness,the way to get the knowledge of glaucoma,the factors affecting the awareness,the influence of awareness on psychological barriers and the quality of life,and the impact of learning and health education on awareness.