Table 4.
Compliance to Spectacle Wear, Duration of Wear, Adaptation, and Value of Spectacles after 1 Month of Wear
| Factor | Ready-Made Spectacles (n = 209) | Custom Spectacles (n = 206) | P* |
|---|---|---|---|
| Worn glasses in last 4 weeks? | 197 (94.3) | 190 (92.2) | 0.48 |
| Worn to visit? | |||
| Yes | 98 (46.9) | 106 (51.5) | 0.23 |
| No | 111 (53.1) | 100 (48.5) | |
| How often worn? | |||
| All day | 15 (7.6) | 15 (7.9) | 0.88 |
| Part of day | 65 (33.0) | 65 (34.2) | |
| Only for distance vision | 116 (58.9) | 107 (56.3) | |
| Only for near vision | 1 (0.5) | 3 (1.6) | |
| Did you need to adapt to spectacles? | 164 (78.5) | 162 (78.6) | 0.81 |
| Time to adapt | |||
| <1 day | 47 (28.7) | 59 (37.0) | 0.26 |
| 1–7 days | 75 (45.7) | 57 (35.2) | |
| 1–2 weeks | 20 (12.2) | 22 (13.6) | |
| 2–4 weeks | 13 (7.9) | 13 (8.0) | |
| Still not adapted | 9 (5.5) | 10 (6.2) | |
| Helping see better | |||
| Dispensing visit† | 198 (97.1) | 199 (99.5) | 0.10 |
| Follow-up visit | 203 (97.1) | 204 (99.0) | 0.22 |
| Plan to continue to wear (at 1 month)?‡ | 195 (93.3) | 193 (93.7) | 0.80 |
| Value of spectacles | |||
| Most valued possession | 25 (12.0) | 25 (12.1) | 0.75 |
| High value | 89 (42.6) | 88 (42.7) | |
| Moderate value | 73 (34.9) | 76 (36.9) | |
| Some value | 20 (9.6) | 15 (7.2) | |
| No value or use | 2 (1.0) | 2 (1.0) | |
| Rate of remakes§ | 5 (2.3) | 1 (0.5) | 0.16 |
OD = right eye; OS = left eye; OU = both eyes.
Adjusted for gender.
Questionnaires not completed on those who were dispensed at a later date (n = 404).
Those not planning to continue to wear reported in ready-made spectacles (RMS): poor vision (n = 1; wearing −1.00 OU; subjective refraction OD, −1.75/−1.00 × 180; OS, −1.00/−0.75 × 165), frame not comfortable (n = 2), did not like how they looked in spectacles (n = 4), and other reasons (n = 1). In custom spectacles, lost (n = 1), broken (n = 1), did not like how they looked in spectacles (n = 3), and other reasons (n = 2).
Four of 6 of those who had remakes were previous spectacle wearers. Reasons for remakes were broken frames (1 RMS), 0.25-diopter change owing to dizziness and headache (1 RMS, 1 Custom Spectacles), poor vision (3 RMS).