Table 3.
Comparison of socio-demographic parameters based on patient’s willingness to accept presbyopic correction.
| Based on patient’s willingness to wear near vision (NV) glasses | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patients with complaints related to presbyopia, (n = 262) | p value | Patients without complaints related to presbyopia, (n = 80) | p value | |||
| Willing for NV correction | Not willing for NV correction | Willing for NV correction (n = 45) | Not willing for NV correction (n = 35) | |||
| (n = 240) | (n = 22) | |||||
| Age (years), mean ± SD | 48.22 ± 6.57 | 47.77 ± 6.67 | 0.95 | 50.87 ± 6.5 | 48.37 ± 7.35 | 0.443 |
| Gender | 0.13 | |||||
| Male | 112 (46.66%) | 8 (36.36%) | 0.35 | 22 (48.89%) | 23 (65.71%) | |
| Female | 128 (53.33%) | 14 (63.64%) | 23 (51.11%) | 12(34.29%) | ||
| Educational qualification | 0.02 | 0.37 | ||||
| Illiterate | 24 (10%) | 4 (18.18%) | 9 (20.00%) | 7 (20.00%) | ||
| Primary School | 62 (25.83%) | 10 (45.45%) | 17 (37.78%) | 11 (31.43%) | ||
| Secondary School | 70 (29.16%) | 7 (31.82%) | 14 (31.11%) | 8 (22.86%) | ||
| Above Graduate | 84 (34.99%) | 1 (4.55%) | 5 (11.09%) | 9 (25.71%) | ||
| Occupation (Based on—classification) | 0.02 | 0.07 | ||||
| Skilled | 192 (79.99%) | 12 (54.55%) | 34 (75.55%) | 20 (57.14%) | ||
| Semiskilled | 21 (8.75%) | 4 (18.18%) | 6 (13.33%) | 4 (11.43%) | ||
| Unskilled | 27 (11.25%) | 6 (27.27%) | 5 (11.11%) | 11 (31.43%) | ||
Significant values are in [bold].