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A STUDY ON THE DISEASE OF DRY EYE AND ITS ASSOCIATION WITH DEPRESSION

Dr Faiza Yasmeen, Dr Sohail Jamil, Dr. Mohammad Tariq Siddique, Dr Khurram Jamil, Dr Farhat Minhas, Dr Ahsan Raza

Objective: The disease of Dry Eye is very common problem of health. Most of the painful symptoms of this disease leads to depression and medication against the depression is also the cause of the disease of dry eye. The aim of this research work is to determine the association between the disease of dry eye and symptoms of depression among the aged population. Methodology: This study was a transverse research work was conducted in eighteen months in Ameer Abdul Aziz Bin Mosaed Hospital Arar Northern Border Zone KSA. Ethical committee of the hospital gave the permission to conduct this research work. We took the consent of 1400 willing patients having 36 to 76 years of age from both genders who were undergoing study for dry eye. We evaluated all the patients into 2 steps. In the initial, we managed a questionnaire (DEQ-6) and then we performed tests for dry eyes. We carried out the diagnosis of the dry eye in accordance with the diagnosis standard for dry eye of Japan. In the next step, we used SGDS-K (Korean Short Geriatric Depression Scale) for all the patients, scoring one single point for every answer designated. SPSS V.17 was in use for the analysis of the collected information. Results: Out of total 1400 patients, 28.28% patients were present with disease of dry eye. Total 24.68% patients were present with depression in accordance with SGDS-K among the patients of dry eye disease. The most frequent symptoms in this research work are watering in 32.58% and 58.0% females were present as post-menopausal. Majority of the patients of dry eye were present with old age from more than 48 year of age, more were living in the city areas, disease was dominant in men and these patients had high income and very low visual acuity in comparison wo the patients with no disease of dry eye. Conclusion: The occurrence of the depression was high in the patients suffering from disease of dry eye as compared to the patients with no dry eye disease. Key Words: Dry Eye, Depression, Occurrence, Menopausal, Comparison, SGDS-K, Symptoms.

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