Glaucoma awareness, anxiety and its impact on patients undergoing visual field testing and optical coherence tomography.

Devendra MaheshwariMadhavi Ramanatha PillaiT Nithin George KoshyNimrita NagdevD Ranitha GunaselviMohammed Sithiq Uduman Mohideen Abdul KaderRengappa Ramakrishnan

Published in: European journal of ophthalmology (2024)

Anxiety levels induced by both diagnostic modalities HFA and OCT appear to be similar and it does not affect the reliability indices.Anxiety score was higher in female participants and participants lacking disease awareness.

Keyphrases

optical coherence tomography
patients undergoing
sleep quality
optic nerve
diabetic retinopathy
depressive symptoms