MARCO ISLAND, Fla. — A survey distributed in a Haitian church in South Florida proved useful for assessing glaucoma knowledge of the community, according to a poster at the Women in Ophthalmology Summer Symposium.
A subsequent educational intervention, followed by a second administration of the same survey, did not have a significant impact on overall knowledge level, “possibly due to poor knowledge retention,” Linda Celestin, COA, and colleagues from Bascom Palmer Eye Institute wrote in the poster.
After a church service, the bishop distributed and read aloud the survey, and