Research Article
Analysis of Factors Affecting Patients’ Compliance to Topical Antiglaucoma Medications in Egypt as a Developing Country Model
Table 3
Effect of basic knowledge of glaucoma disease on compliance to antiglaucoma medication.
| Knowledge about disease | Compliance | Total | No | Yes |
| High IOP/optic atrophy | 1 (0.4%) | 16 (7.8%) | 17 (3.9%) | High IOP | 97 (41.1%) | 127 (62.3%) | 224 (50.9%) | High IOP/blue eye | 2 (0.8%) | 0 | 2 (0.5%) | Blue eye | 6 (2.5%) | 4 (2%) | 10 (2.3%) | None | 127 (53.8%) | 55 (27%) | 182 (41.4%) |
| Total | 236 (53.6%) | 204 (46.4%) | 440 |
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