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. 2018 Jun 7;12:1049–1059. doi: 10.2147/OPTH.S142702

Table 1.

Awareness of corneal donation and willingness to donate across 55 included studies

Study Country Subjects Method Awareness (%) Willingness to donate (%) Pledged donors (%) Comments
Lawlor et al7 Australia 371 adults Survey 59
Chu et al8 China 1,867 registered tissue donors and 1,796 resident controls Survey 90.3 (registered tissue donors); 78.9 (resident controls) 82.2 (registered tissue donors); 45.1 (resident controls)
Wang et al9 China 430 adults in 12 randomly chosen communities in Guangzhou, southern China Survey 40.7
Zhao et al10 China 1,072 residents of Chongqing, China Survey 47.2 9.51 62.69% supported eye donation
Gelaw and Ambaw11 Ethiopia 403 health science students and academic university staff Survey 81.8
Gessesse and Tilahun12 Ethiopia 492 adults in sampled housing units Interview 30.9 57.9
Hussen et al13 Ethiopia 774 community-dwelling adults Interview 57 38
Ackuaku-Dogbe and Abaidoo14 Ghana 536 eye patients at a tertiary center Survey 8.4 59.9
Acharya et al15 India 208 medical and nonmedical staff of a tertiary eye institute in New Delhi Survey 65.9 84.6
Ahirwar et al16 India 467 medical students Survey 81.4 61.9
Amruth et al17 India 251 adult patients and their attendants at a primary health center in south India Survey 36.6 51
Biswas et al18 India 1,525 secondary school students Survey 81
Chacko et al19 India 100 adolescents at a pre-university college Survey 70.5
Dandona et al20 India 2,522 urban adults of Hyderabad, India Interview 73.8 44.9 1.9
Dhaliwal21 India 49 final-year medical students and 24 non-medical students of comparable age (controls) Survey 79.6 (medical students), 87.5 (controls) 83.7 (medical students), 87.5 (controls)
Duggal et al22 India 2,000 adult residents of northwest India Interview 70.5 52
Gupta et al23 India 188 first- and second-year nursing students in Bangalore Survey 96.8 85.1
Gupta et al24 India 365 students between seventh and tenth grade Survey 87 36 72% supported or strongly supported cornea donation
Khan et al25 India 154 outpatients at a tertiary hospital Survey 86 61
Khandelwal and Katre26 India 300 healthcare providers at a tertiary care hospital Survey 91 74.7
Krishnaiah et al27 India 7,775 residents of rural Andhra Pradesh ages 15 or greater Interview 28 32.9 0.5
Kumar and Naik28 India 200 medical students Survey 98.2 21.1
Kumar et al29 India 400 medical, nursing, and paramedical students in Bhopal Survey 98 46.75
Lal et al30 India 340 health profession students Survey 97.9 42.6
Magdum et al31 India 60 paramedical workers Survey 75 77
Nekar et al32 India 403 students from 8 colleges Survey 96 78.1
Panigrahi et al33 India 492 patients and their attendants awaiting an appointment at a tertiary ophthalmology department Survey 57.9 54.6
Panigrahi et al34 India 262 medical and nursing students Survey 85.9 64.5
Patil et al35 India 196 adults in rural India Survey 80.6
Patil et al36 India 1,014 shopkeepers in urban Pune Interview 74.16 19.83
Prabhu37 India 250 eye clinic patients Survey 94.4 71.7 9.7
Priyadarshini et al38 India 507 adults in southern India Interview 50.7
Ronanki et al39 India 355 stakeholders, defined as social services workers and kin of a cornea donor Interview 93 82
Singh et al40 India 180 first-year medical students in Delhi Survey 99.4 87.2
Tandon et al41 India 159 next of kin of recently deceased potential donors who had not previously pledged to donate their corneas Interview 55.4 41.5
Tigga et al42 India 198 nursing and paramedical staff Survey 21.71 39.39% scored adequately on knowledge of eye donation
Tiwari et al43 India 947 adults Interview 62.3
Vallinayagam et al44 India 679 medical and engineering students Survey 100 84.8 3.8
Vidusha and Manjunatha45 India 160 medical students in Bangalore Survey 99.3 9
Bhandary et al46 Malaysia 400 patients attending outpatient appointment Survey 69 34.4
Bharti et al47 Malaysia 400 university students studying health sciences Survey 86 27
Arya et al48 Nepal 395 medical and paramedical staff of a medical institute Survey 80.5 65.4
Joshi49 Nepal 1,775 rural Nepalis age 15 or older Survey 30.7 32.9 0.1
Abadom et al50 Nigeria 108 medical doctors in Nigeria Survey 75.9 33.3
Eze et al51 Nigeria 107 medical students, 75 environmental science students (controls) Survey 47.7 (medical students), 33.3 (controls) 13.1 (medical students), 16.0 (controls)
Okoye et al52 Nigeria 131 final-year medical students at the University of Nigeria Survey 79.4 33.6
Waziri-Erameh et al53 Nigeria 160 ophthalmologists in Nigeria Survey 21
Ahmad et al54 Pakistan 200 medical students Survey 75 70
Parvez et al55 Pakistan 1,520 urban Pakistanis Survey 65.3 7.3 1.3
Bugis et al56 Saudi Arabia 374 residents of western Saudi Arabia Survey 54.9 61.5
Hameed and Jadidy57 Saudi Arabia 408 medical students Survey 35.8 21.1
Paraz et al58 Singapore 500 Singaporean youth ages 18 to 25 Survey 26.8 31.0 (46.8 undecided)
Yew et al59 Singapore 544 Singaporean adults at randomly selected housing units Interview 80.7 67
Palamar et al60 Turkey 1,000 outpatients awaiting an appointment Survey 54.7
Williams et al61 United States 207 patients awaiting an appointment at a tertiary eye center and 76 accompanying family members Survey 90 11
Total subjects: 38,851 Average: 71% 52% 5%