Problems of Poor Vision in Children and Adults: With Special Reference to Saudi Arabia

Abstract

Vision loss or total blindness is a curse for any given human being is very closely related to the conditions of depression, low quality of life, social un-acceptance and even low social participation. Considering Saudi Arabia as a developing country, the respective cases of vision loss in children above the age of 11 years, youngsters up to the people of age 45 is more as compared to developed nations. Then the ratio is somewhere between 1:4 i.e. 1 for developed countries and 4 for Saudi Arabia. This present study will try to evaluate the scenario of low vision and total blindness in the Qassim region of the country and throw some light on the reasons, cures, etc. for the people suffering from such ailments. This will be a primary data-based study and uses descriptive statistics for the analysis of data.