Publications by authors named "Selassie K Dzasimatu"
Purpose: To evaluate the association between subjective dry eye symptoms and the results of the clinical examinations.
Methods: The study was a clinical-based survey involving 215 first-year students selected consecutively during a regular ocular health examination at the University of Cape Coast Optometry Clinic. The data collection process spanned for a period of four months.
Clinical subtypes of dry eye in youthful clinical sample in Ghana.
Cont Lens Anterior Eye
April 2019
Purpose: To evaluate in a cohort of patients with dry eye disease (DED) the distribution of patients with asymptomatic and symptomatic dry eye involving aqueous deficient or the evaporative subtype of DED.
Methods: This was a clinic-based cross-sectional study of consecutive patients visiting the University of Cape Coast eye clinic for a comprehensive eye examination. Eligible participants completed the Ocular Surface Disease Index (OSDI), ocular surface staining and tear break up time.
Objective: To determine the impact of dry eye on quality of life, depression, anxiety, and stress in a healthy youthful clinical sample.
Methods: This was a clinic-based cross-sectional study. Subjects were patients visiting the University of Cape Coast Eye Clinic for comprehensive eye examination.
Significance: This study showed a high frequency of nonobvious obstructive meibomian gland dysfunction, which can be detected only via the expression of the meibomian glands. The study advocates that meibomian gland expressibility should be a routine part of the clinical examination of patients especially those with dry eyes to avoid missing meibomian gland dysfunction among a youthful population.
Purpose: The aim of this study was to estimate the frequency of meibomian gland dysfunction including asymptomatic and symptomatic meibomian gland dysfunction and obvious and nonobvious obstructive meibomian gland dysfunction among a youthful population in Ghana.