Parents' views on their children's use of eye drops and willingness to accept a new sustained-release subconjunctival injection

Semra Ozdemir,1,* Hong King Wu,1,* Eric A Finkelstein,1 Tina T Wong2 1Signature Program in Health Services and Systems Research, Duke-NUS Medical School Singapore, 2Glaucoma Department, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore *These authors contributed equally to this work Aim: The objectives of...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:58d5bc3eb9044c8486593482ad0587e82021-12-02T07:48:49ZParents' views on their children's use of eye drops and willingness to accept a new sustained-release subconjunctival injection1177-5483https://doaj.org/article/58d5bc3eb9044c8486593482ad0587e82017-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.dovepress.com/parents-views-on-their-childrens-use-of-eye-drops-and-willingness-to-a-peer-reviewed-article-OPTHhttps://doaj.org/toc/1177-5483Semra Ozdemir,1,* Hong King Wu,1,* Eric A Finkelstein,1 Tina T Wong2 1Signature Program in Health Services and Systems Research, Duke-NUS Medical School Singapore, 2Glaucoma Department, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore *These authors contributed equally to this work Aim: The objectives of this study were to explore parents' views about their children's use of regular eye drops and whether they would consider a sustained-release subconjunctival injection as a replacement for daily drops.Methods: A survey was conducted with 134 parents of children with chronic eye diseases at the Singapore National Eye Centre. Parents were asked their views about their children’s use of eye drops and were then presented with a discrete choice experiment that, via a series of trade-off tasks, allowed for estimating demand for a series of hypothetical subconjunctival injections that varied along product features, including interval between administrations, risk of complications, out-of-pocket cost and whether it is recommended by the patient’s treating physician.Results: Results showed that the vast majority of parents did not find administration of eye drops to be inconvenient (78%) nor did children complain about using daily eye drops (78%). Furthermore, only about half of parents whose child missed doses stated concerns about the consequences of non-compliance. The discrete choice experiment revealed that only one in five parents would consider a subconjunctival injection for their children. These parents tended to be more concerned about the consequences of non-compliance with eye drops, had children who administered the drops themselves or had other chronic disease requiring regular medication. Among these parents, risk of complications had the largest effect on injection uptake.Conclusion: This study shows that parents do not find administration of daily eye drops to be a significant burden. As a result, most would not consider a subconjunctival injection unless risk of complications was extremely small. Keywords: sustained-release subconjunctival injection, parent preferences, children’s use of eye dropsOzdemir SWu HKFinkelstein EAWong TTDove Medical PressarticleSustained-release subconjunctival injectionparent preferenceschildren’s use of eye dropsOphthalmologyRE1-994ENClinical Ophthalmology, Vol Volume 11, Pp 1903-1909 (2017)
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language EN
topic Sustained-release subconjunctival injection
parent preferences
children’s use of eye drops
Ophthalmology
RE1-994
spellingShingle Sustained-release subconjunctival injection
parent preferences
children’s use of eye drops
Ophthalmology
RE1-994
Ozdemir S
Wu HK
Finkelstein EA
Wong TT
Parents' views on their children's use of eye drops and willingness to accept a new sustained-release subconjunctival injection
description Semra Ozdemir,1,* Hong King Wu,1,* Eric A Finkelstein,1 Tina T Wong2 1Signature Program in Health Services and Systems Research, Duke-NUS Medical School Singapore, 2Glaucoma Department, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore *These authors contributed equally to this work Aim: The objectives of this study were to explore parents' views about their children's use of regular eye drops and whether they would consider a sustained-release subconjunctival injection as a replacement for daily drops.Methods: A survey was conducted with 134 parents of children with chronic eye diseases at the Singapore National Eye Centre. Parents were asked their views about their children’s use of eye drops and were then presented with a discrete choice experiment that, via a series of trade-off tasks, allowed for estimating demand for a series of hypothetical subconjunctival injections that varied along product features, including interval between administrations, risk of complications, out-of-pocket cost and whether it is recommended by the patient’s treating physician.Results: Results showed that the vast majority of parents did not find administration of eye drops to be inconvenient (78%) nor did children complain about using daily eye drops (78%). Furthermore, only about half of parents whose child missed doses stated concerns about the consequences of non-compliance. The discrete choice experiment revealed that only one in five parents would consider a subconjunctival injection for their children. These parents tended to be more concerned about the consequences of non-compliance with eye drops, had children who administered the drops themselves or had other chronic disease requiring regular medication. Among these parents, risk of complications had the largest effect on injection uptake.Conclusion: This study shows that parents do not find administration of daily eye drops to be a significant burden. As a result, most would not consider a subconjunctival injection unless risk of complications was extremely small. Keywords: sustained-release subconjunctival injection, parent preferences, children’s use of eye drops
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author Ozdemir S
Wu HK
Finkelstein EA
Wong TT
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Wu HK
Finkelstein EA
Wong TT
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title Parents' views on their children's use of eye drops and willingness to accept a new sustained-release subconjunctival injection
title_short Parents' views on their children's use of eye drops and willingness to accept a new sustained-release subconjunctival injection
title_full Parents' views on their children's use of eye drops and willingness to accept a new sustained-release subconjunctival injection
title_fullStr Parents' views on their children's use of eye drops and willingness to accept a new sustained-release subconjunctival injection
title_full_unstemmed Parents' views on their children's use of eye drops and willingness to accept a new sustained-release subconjunctival injection
title_sort parents' views on their children's use of eye drops and willingness to accept a new sustained-release subconjunctival injection
publisher Dove Medical Press
publishDate 2017
url https://doaj.org/article/58d5bc3eb9044c8486593482ad0587e8
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