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The effect on income of providing near vision correction to workers in Bangladesh: The THRIVE (Tradespeople and Hand-workers Rural Initiative for a Vision-enhanced Economy) randomized controlled trial.
| العنوان: | The effect on income of providing near vision correction to workers in Bangladesh: The THRIVE (Tradespeople and Hand-workers Rural Initiative for a Vision-enhanced Economy) randomized controlled trial. |
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| المؤلفون: | Farzana Sehrin, Ling Jin, Kamrun Naher, Narayan Chandra Das, Ving Fan Chan, Dong Feng Li, Susan Bergson, Ella Gudwin, Mike Clarke, Tai Stephan, Nathan Congdon |
| المصدر: | PLoS ONE, Vol 19, Iss 4, p e0296115 (2024) |
| بيانات النشر: | Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2024. |
| سنة النشر: | 2024 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Medicine LCC:Science |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Medicine, Science |
| الوصف: | IntroductionPresbyopia, the leading cause of vision impairment globally, is common during working years. However, no trials have assessed presbyopia's impact on income.MethodsIn April 2017, we conducted a census among 59 Bangladesh villages to identify persons aged 35 to 65 years with presbyopia (presenting distance vision > = 6/12 bilaterally and correctable inability to see 6/13 at 40 cm with both eyes), who never had owned glasses. Participants were randomized (1:1) to receive immediate free reading glasses (intervention) or glasses delivered 8 months later (control). Visual demand of different jobs was stratified into three levels. Outcomes were between-group differences in the 8 month change in: self-reported monthly income (primary) and Near Vision Related Quality of Life (NVRQOL, secondary).ResultsAmong 10,884 census participants, 3,655 (33.6%) met vision criteria and 863 (23.6%) comprised a sample enriched for near vision-intensive jobs, but 39 (4.52%) could not be reached. All participants allocated to intervention (n = 423, 51.3%) and control (n = 401, 48.7%) received the appropriate intervention, and follow-up was available for 93.4% and 96.8% respectively. Groups were similar at baseline in all characteristics: mean age was 47 years, 50% were male, 35% literate, and about half engaged in "most near vision-intensive" occupations. Glasses wear at 8-month follow-up was 88.3% and 7.81% in intervention and control respectively. At baseline, both the intervention and control groups had a self-reported median monthly income of US$35.3. At endline, the median income for the intervention group was US$47.1 compared with US$35.3 for control, a difference of 33.4%. Predictors of greater income increase in multivariate models included intervention group allocation (OR 1.45, 95% CI 1.12, 1.88, P = 0.005), male sex (OR 2.41, 95% CI 1.84, 3.16, P ConclusionProvision of reading glasses increases income in near vision-intensive occupations, and may facilitate return to work for those currently unemployed. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1932-6203 |
| Relation: | https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0296115&type=printable; https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203 |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0296115&type=printable |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0296115 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/6aa44aa79625405fa75b79953bb5d6a5 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsdoj.6aa44aa79625405fa75b79953bb5d6a5 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 19326203 |
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| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0296115&type=printable |