Assessment of the factors that can influence the occurrence of eye care service usage in Pakistan
1Dr Tanveer Ahmed, 2Dr Muhammad Naeem, 3Dr Muhammad Tariq Bangash,4Tahmoor Shahzad, 5Khizer Javed, 6Hammad Murad
Submission: 10 January 2026 | Acceptance: 03 February 2026 | Publication: 04 March 2026
1Assistant Professor Eye CMH Kharian Medical College Kharian Cantt
2Ophthalmology, Lady Reading Hospital Peshawar LRH
3Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Islam Medical College, Sialkot
4UHS Lahore
5PIMS Islamabad
6UHS Lahore
ABSTRACT:
Aim: To assess the variables that impact and the occurrence of eye care service usage in Pakistani populace.
Methods: This cross-sectional, inhabitant’s research collected information from 23,750 Pakistani children aged 4 years who took part in Pakistani National Diet and Nutrition Survey between june 2023 and june 2024. The data for persons aged 4 to 12 years (young kids) was driven by self of interaction through an eye care service in previous year; for adults’ elderly 13 years (elder people), knowledge remained founded on connection with an eye care service. The complicated census sampling data was subjected to univariate also multivariate logistic regression analysis.
Results: The incidence of eye care service habit in early offspring over previous year was 63.2 percent (96 percent uncertainty range, 59.2 percent –65.2 percent), whereas it was 74.6 percent in the senior population across their lifetime. Participants aged 8 to 12 years remained far more probable than subjects aged 4 to 7 years to have received an eye exam in preceding year (odds ratio, 4.85; 96 percent probability value, 3.38–7.18). According to a multivariable logistic study, having a greater household income, being the member of the National Health Insurance program, in addition with private health insurance have all been associated with extra recurrent habit of eye care facilities in offspring. The elderly also females, as well as individuals with best-amended visual acuity less than 25/50 in worse-seeing eye, remained far extra prone to keep an eye checkup throughout the lives. In the elderly, a low education level remained connected through such a little lifetime usage of eye care services.
Conclusions: In Pakistan, here exist socioeconomic discrepancies in the usage of eye care services. This inhabitant’s paper provides a comprehensive survey that may be used to develop alternative intervention strategies depending on sociodemographic gaps in order to increase eye care service consumption in Pakistan.
Keywords: Impact, Prevalence, Eye Care Service, Pakistani population.