aDepartment of Ophthalmology, SHKM Govt. Medical College, Mewat, Haryana, India
bDepartment of General Medicine, SHKM Govt. Medical College, Mewat, Haryana, India
cDepartment of Community Medicine, SHKM Govt. Medical College, Mewat, Haryana, India
dDepartment of Microbiology, MSDS Medical College, Fatehgarh, Uttar Pradesh, India
eDepartment of Orthodontics, Indira Gandhi Government Dental College, Jammu, Jammu & Kashmir, India
fDeputy Assistant, Director Health, 19 Inf. Div
1Corresponding author
Online published on 20 April, 2016.
The present study was planned with the objective of accessing awareness towards eye donation among general population. Out of the 250 subjects, 92.8% (232) knew that eyes can be donated after death; that they should ideally be donated within 6 hours of death was known to 102 (40.8%) of the subjects. The contact place for donation was known to only 82 (32.8%) of 250 subjects. The majority of the participants, 202 (80.8%) of 250 subjects, were either willing to donate eyes or had already pledged to donate their eyes. The perceived reason for donating eyes was nobility in the act of eye donation was the main motivational force according to 198 (82.5%) of the 240 subjects. Out of 179 subject, lack of awareness was cited as an important reason for people not donating their eyes among 67 (37.4%) of 179 subjects. Fifteen (8.3%) of 179 subjects disliked the idea of separating their eyes from their body and 45 (25.1%) sited objection by family members for not donating their eyes.
Awareness, Barriers, Eye donation, Donors, Motivation
