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Di Pierdomenico, Johnny; González-González, Raquel; Valiente-Soriano, Francisco J.; Galindo-Romero, Caridad; García-Ayuso, Diego

Attitudes and knowledge of myopia management by Spanish optometrists

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  • Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Attitudes and knowledge of myopia management by Spanish optometrists
  • Beteiligte: Di Pierdomenico, Johnny; González-González, Raquel; Valiente-Soriano, Francisco J.; Galindo-Romero, Caridad; García-Ayuso, Diego
  • Erschienen: Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2023
  • Erschienen in: International Ophthalmology
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1007/s10792-023-02835-7
  • ISSN: 1573-2630
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  • Beschreibung: <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:sec> <jats:title>Purpose</jats:title> <jats:p>To investigate the knowledge, training and clinical practice of Spanish optometrists about preventing and controlling myopia progression.</jats:p> </jats:sec><jats:sec> <jats:title>Methods</jats:title> <jats:p>A web-based questionnaire was distributed to Spanish optometrists through social networks, optometric professional bodies and one of the major Spanish optometrists' associations to assess practitioner perception, understanding, and self-reported clinical practice behavior related to myopia diagnosis and management.</jats:p> </jats:sec><jats:sec> <jats:title>Results</jats:title> <jats:p>A total of 534 optometrists with a mean age of 40.8 ± 10.3 years completed the survey. Most respondents have been practicing optometry for more than 20 years (89.8%), report having actively treated childhood myopia (82.4%), and are very concerned about the increasing frequency of pediatric myopia in their daily practice (85.3%). Almost all of the respondents (97.3%) agreed that the efficacy of treatment is related to the age at which it is prescribed, and more than half (53.6%) considered a progression higher than − 0.50 and up to − 1.00D as the minimum necessary to consider a myopia management option. Respondents who reported actively managing childhood myopia considered orthokeratology, atropine and soft-defocus contact lenses the most effective myopia control interventions. However, the most frequently prescribed form of myopia correction by Spanish optometrists was single-vision spectacles, followed by orthokeratology and soft-defocus contact lenses.</jats:p> </jats:sec><jats:sec> <jats:title>Conclusions</jats:title> <jats:p>Spanish optometrists are very active in the management of myopia, especially by fitting orthokeratology lenses or dual-focus soft contact lenses for myopia control, but there is still potential for improvement in the methodology they follow for both the diagnosis and management of myopia.</jats:p> </jats:sec>