{"title":"Willingness to Accept Keratorefractive Surgery and its Barriers among Myopes at Eye Foundation Hospital Group, Nigeria","authors":"Agu Obiajulu Chidubem, Okechukwu Peter Ebiem","doi":"10.24966/ocr-8887/100113","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The willingness to accept keratorefractive surgical services in this study was low. The main barriers to the uptake of the services were fear of damage, lack of awareness and financial constraints and there is a need for patient education to improve surgical uptake","PeriodicalId":91268,"journal":{"name":"HSOA journal of ophthalmology & clinical research","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"HSOA journal of ophthalmology & clinical research","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.24966/ocr-8887/100113","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The willingness to accept keratorefractive surgical services in this study was low. The main barriers to the uptake of the services were fear of damage, lack of awareness and financial constraints and there is a need for patient education to improve surgical uptake