Cataract Surgery Informed Consent Survey

Abstract

To evaluate the importance patients attach to informed consent and the information they are given during counselling for cataract surgery. A total number of sixty one patients who came for cataract surgery during the eye camp in Owo in August, 2006 were randomly selected using simple random sampling and interviewed. Most respondents attached importance to informed consent and considered it as a legal document. The information the respondents considered most important was the chances of restoration of vision after operation. Chances of vision restoration was very important to the respondents.

Keywords: Informed consent, cataract surgery.

The Nigerian Medical Practitioner Vol. 51 (6) 2007: pp. 133-135