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http://dx.doi.org/10.14479/jkoos.2015.20.1.43

The Survey on its Wearing Schedule of Workers Wearing Contact Lens  

Kim, Ki-Sung (Dept. of Visual Optics, Graduate School of Health and Welfare, Baekseok University)
Kim, Sun-Kyung (Dept. of Visual Optics, Graduate School of Health and Welfare, Baekseok University)
Kim, Hyojin (Dept. of Visual Optics, Graduate School of Health and Welfare, Baekseok University)
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Journal of Korean Ophthalmic Optics Society / v.20, no.1, 2015 , pp. 43-49 More about this Journal
Abstract
Purpose: This study was to compare the habitual soft contact lens wear to recommended wearing schedule for subjects and suggest a clinical guideline for prescribing contact lens. Methods: 611 adults (39 men and 572 women) with contact lens experience took part in this study. The survey collected information about current wearing schedule (hours/day and days/week), types of lenses worn and awareness of recommended wear schedule. Results: The subjects wore the daily contact lens for $7.97{\pm}3.60$ hours/day in average. Of these, 247 subjects (40.4%) exceeded the recommended wear schedule and 36 (5.9%) wore for over 15 hours. It turned out that subjects with 3-month extended contact lenses and the ones with the conventional daily wear wore for $9.79{\pm}2.68$ hours and $8.98{\pm}3.30$ hours/day, respectively. For subjects wearing contact lenses longer than five days/week it tended to wear for over 9 hours. Those who were aware of the wear schedule were 293 (48.0%), and those not were 318 (52.0%). 56.7% of subjects who were aware of the wear schedule respected the recommendation whereas only 22.3% of those unaware of it were found to respect it. The possibility to respect the wear schedule was 4.55 times higher when wearers were aware of it. Conclusions: Korean office workers wearing contact lenses wore for $7.97{\pm}3.60$ hours/day. 247 (40.4%) of subjects wore contact lens longer than recommended wear schedule. This implies that it will need to educate contact lens wearer about recommended wear schedule and advice for the long time wearer.
Keywords
Contact lens; Lens wearing time; Recommended wearing time;
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