TY - JOUR
T1 - Aditya jyot-diabetic retinopathy in urban mumbai slums study (AJ-DRUMSS)
T2 - Study design and methodology-report 1
AU - Sunita, Mohan
AU - Desai, Shachi
AU - Vinay, Prasad
AU - Moolani, Samita
AU - Rai, Navendu
AU - Deepen, Sheth
AU - Ashwini, Rogiye
AU - Manish, Sonawane
AU - Hemangi, Gawali
AU - Abdal, Oliullah
AU - Kulkarni, Pandurang
AU - Chakravarti, Arindam
AU - Uthra, Satagopan
AU - Raman, Rajiv
AU - Radhika, Srinivasan
AU - Natarajan, Sundaram
AU - Kumaramanickavel, Govindasamy
AU - McCarty, Catherine
N1 - Funding Information:
The project is partly funded by the World Diabetes Foundation.
PY - 2014/2
Y1 - 2014/2
N2 - Purpose: To describe the methodology of Aditya Jyot-Diabetic Retinopathy in Urban Mumbai Slums Study (AJ-DRUMSS), which was designed (i) to estimate the prevalence of diabetic retinopathy (DR) in a general population, (ii) to study the risk factors associated with DR in those with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM), and (iii) to create awareness for early detection and develop timely interventional management for DR. Methods: AJ-DRUMSS is an ongoing population-based cross sectional study conducted in seven wards of slums in Mumbai, India, wherein eligible subjects from the general population were screened for DR and profiled for their demographic, social and biochemical parameters to study the associations of these factors. Results: To date, nearly 54,000 households have been enumerated for both awareness and DR prevalence in five study areas (out of seven) during 17 awareness campaigns and 78 DR screening camps. Of these, 4295 households were included in AJ-DRUMSS. Nearly 15,000 camp subjects (including subjects from awareness-focused areas who also turned up for the screening camps) were screened from the total enumerated households, of which 16.1% were diagnosed with type 2 DM. A total of 14.5% of these had evidence of DR and 3.5% had sight-threatening DR. Conclusions: A detailed study design of AJ-DRUMSS is described. In the screening camps nearly 3.5% of the diabetic population had sight-threatening DR, which needed an active interventional strategy. This study will help in formulating efficient eye care policies, making optimum use of available resources, reorienting healthcare providers and the ignorant within the population regarding the need for periodic ophthalmic surveillance and timely intervention.
AB - Purpose: To describe the methodology of Aditya Jyot-Diabetic Retinopathy in Urban Mumbai Slums Study (AJ-DRUMSS), which was designed (i) to estimate the prevalence of diabetic retinopathy (DR) in a general population, (ii) to study the risk factors associated with DR in those with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM), and (iii) to create awareness for early detection and develop timely interventional management for DR. Methods: AJ-DRUMSS is an ongoing population-based cross sectional study conducted in seven wards of slums in Mumbai, India, wherein eligible subjects from the general population were screened for DR and profiled for their demographic, social and biochemical parameters to study the associations of these factors. Results: To date, nearly 54,000 households have been enumerated for both awareness and DR prevalence in five study areas (out of seven) during 17 awareness campaigns and 78 DR screening camps. Of these, 4295 households were included in AJ-DRUMSS. Nearly 15,000 camp subjects (including subjects from awareness-focused areas who also turned up for the screening camps) were screened from the total enumerated households, of which 16.1% were diagnosed with type 2 DM. A total of 14.5% of these had evidence of DR and 3.5% had sight-threatening DR. Conclusions: A detailed study design of AJ-DRUMSS is described. In the screening camps nearly 3.5% of the diabetic population had sight-threatening DR, which needed an active interventional strategy. This study will help in formulating efficient eye care policies, making optimum use of available resources, reorienting healthcare providers and the ignorant within the population regarding the need for periodic ophthalmic surveillance and timely intervention.
KW - Awareness
KW - Diabetic retinopathy
KW - Mumbai
KW - Ophthalmic screening
KW - Prevalence
KW - Type 2 diabetes mellitus
KW - Urban slums
KW - Western India
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U2 - 10.3109/09286586.2013.867509
DO - 10.3109/09286586.2013.867509
M3 - Article
C2 - 24467563
AN - SCOPUS:84893422837
SN - 0928-6586
VL - 21
SP - 51
EP - 60
JO - Ophthalmic Epidemiology
JF - Ophthalmic Epidemiology
IS - 1
ER -