Perceptions of blindness related to smoking: A hospital-based cross-sectional study

G. Bidwell; A. Sahu; R. Edwards; R. A. Harrison; J. Thornton; Simon P. Kelly

doi:10.1038/sj.eye.6701955

Perceptions of blindness related to smoking: A hospital-based cross-sectional study

G. Bidwell, A. Sahu, R. Edwards, R. A. Harrison, J. Thornton, Simon P. Kelly

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Aims: Smoking is associated with several serious eye diseases. Awareness of smoking and blindness, and its potential to act, as a stimulus to assist stopping smoking has not been investigated. Methods: A cross-sectional survey using a structured interview of adult patients attending district general hospital ophthalmology, general surgery, and orthopaedic clinics. The interview investigated the awareness and fear of blindness for three established smoking-related diseases, and a distractor condition (deafness), and the likelihood that smokers would quit on developing early signs of each condition. Results: Response was 89.1% (358/402). In all, 183 (51.1%) of responders were male and 175 (48.9%) female. Only 9.5% of patients believed that smoking was definitely or probably a cause of blindness, compared with 92.2% for lung cancer, 87.6% for heart disease, and 70.6% for stroke. Patients ranked their fear of each of the five conditions, scoring five for the most feared and one for the least feared. Patients were significantly (P

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	945-948
Number of pages	3
Journal	Eye
Volume	19
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.eye.6701955
Publication status	Published - Sept 2005

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Awareness
Blindness
Fear
Health promotion
Smoking
Smoking cessation

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Perceptions of blindness related to smoking: A hospital-based cross-sectional study

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