Table 2.
Presentation and clinical characteristics of participants
| Characteristic | Frequency (%) |
| Ocular trauma | |
| Trauma | 103 (59) |
| Vegetative matter | 79 (77) |
| Non-veg matter | 24 (23) |
| No trauma | 71 (41) |
| Duration of symptoms prior to attending SCEH | |
| Median days (IQR) | 15 (6–30) |
| <5 days | 19 (11) |
| 5–14 days | 59 (34) |
| 15–30 days | 83 (48) |
| >30 days | 13 (7) |
| Reasons for delayed presentation | |
| Distance | 94 (54) |
| Money | 28 (16) |
| Nobody to accompany | 24 (14) |
| No information about eye hospital | 15 (9) |
| No response | 13 (7) |
| Consultation before hospital visit | |
| Ophthalmic assistant/optometrist | 83 (48) |
| Local pharmacy | 74 (43) |
| Traditional Healer | 8 (5) |
| Ophthalmologist | 7 (4) |
| Self | 2 (1) |
| Treatments used before hospital visit* | |
| Antibiotic eye-drops | 135 (78) |
| Antifungal eye-drops | 66 (38) |
| Corticosteroid eye-drops | 37 (21) |
| Traditional eye medicine | 15 (9) |
| No Medication | 2 (1) |
| Visual acuity at presentation | |
| 6/5–6/12 | 18 (10) |
| 6/18 | 9 (5) |
| 6/24–3/60 | 40 (23) |
| <3/60 | 107 (61) |
| Visual acuity at final follow-up | |
| 6/5–6/12 | 22 (13) |
| 6/18 | 7 (4) |
| 6/24–3/60 | 72 (41) |
| <3/60 | 73 (42) |
| Types of organism | |
| Fungus | 84 (48) |
| Bacteria | 39 (22) |
| Mixed | 31 (18) |
| No organism found | 20 (12) |
| Size of ulcer | |
| <2 mm | 43 (26) |
| 2–5 mm | 104 (62) |
| >5 mm | 21 (13) |
| Missing data | 6 |
| Stromal depth | |
| <20% | 41 (24) |
| 20%–50% | 117 (70) |
| >50% | 10 (6) |
| Missing data | 6 |
*Some participants were using more than one type of medication at presentation.
SCEH, Sagarmatha Chaudhary Eye Hospital.