Awareness of diabetes and diabetic retinopathy among a group of diabetic patients in main public hospitals in Damascus, Syria during the Syrian crisis

Table 8 Practice toward diabetic eye disease

Part 4: Practice toward diabetic eye disease
	n (%)	n (%)
Do you have an eye problem due to DM?	Yes, 155 (59.6%)
Do you have an eye problem due to DM?	No, 105 (40.4%)
Have you visited an ophthalmologist before	Yes, 164 (63.1%)
Have you visited an ophthalmologist before	No, 96 (36.9%)
If you answered yes to the previous question, Do you visit an ophthalmologist regularly?	Yes, 56 (34.1%)
	No, 108 (65.9%)
	Total, 164
Why you don’t visit an ophthalmologist regularly? (of 108 patients)	do not understand the necessity	32 (40.5%)
	High price	12 (15.2%)
	difficulties in reaching a medical center	11 (13.9%)
	Other^a	24 (30.4%)
	Total	79
	Missing	29
What is the degree of your diabetic retinopathy?	Mild	6 6.1%
	moderate	16 16.3%
	severe	5 5.1%
	don’t know	71 72.4%
	total	98
	Missing	162

^a Other reasons contained special reason to the patients like fear of revealing a hidden disease also a special thought that they believe in it

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