Postoperative Trichiasis and associated factors among adults who underwent Trachomatous Trichiasis Surgery in Ambassel District, Ethiopia.
Postoperative Trichiasis and associated factors among adults who underwent Trachomatous Trichiasis Surgery in Ambassel District, Ethiopia.
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2024-12-26
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This community-based cross-sectional study design was conducted from March 10 to March 23/2020. A multi-stage sampling technique was used to employ a total of 506 individuals. The dataset comprised of residence, sex, age, marital status, family size, number of under five children, occupation, educational status, religion, knowledge assessing question, travel to get water, number of surgery, place of surgery for the last time, eyelid operated, medication taken following surgery, duration of last surgery, history of epilation prior to surgery, complication after surgery, epilation after surgery, frequency of epilation, respondent history of routine zitromax takes, family history of taking azithromycin, surgeons code who perform this operation, type of surgical procedure, and recurrence status related characteristics. Data were collected through the interviewer-administered structured pre-tested questionnaire and entered into EpiData version 3.1 and then exported to SPSS version 23.0 for analysis.