Ocular health screening

It has been observed that many vision-threatening eyes diseases are asymptomatic. The trend of the eye examination is that when an individual perceives some obstacles in his vision, the main manifestations are blurred vision, decreased vision, diplopia, glare, bright halo, headache, eye fatigue, squinting, etc. Its characteristic is asthenopia. The quality of life is greatly affected by visual and ophthalmic conditions. The existence of some silent killer diseases which do not show any significant symptoms but considerably decrease the vision and in some cases if remain untreated will irreversibly damage the eye resulting in permanent loss of vision. Large-scale surveys in the U.S. have shown that only 11% of people are aware that diabetic retinopathy comes with no initial warning symptoms and as little as 8% for open-angle glaucoma. Consequently, this study aims to establish the prevalence of asymptomatic ocular conditions affecting individuals including younger and older patients (above 10 years of age), seeking for an eye exam solely based on refractive symptoms and also to categorize and establish the prevalence of each ocular condition diagnosed in the course of their eye examination.