Attitudes and Expectations RIM

The  purpose  of  this  study  was  to survey  successful contact  lens  patients  and  compare their  degree  of success  with wearers of different  types  of lenses, ie, hard  (PMMA,)  gas  permeable,  daily  soft,  and  extended wear soft lenses). Approximately 40 consecu­tive, phakic patients in each group who had worn their lenses at least 12 hours a day  for a period of at least six  months,  were  compared  for  degree  of  comfort , visual attainment, prevalence of signs and symptoms, and  a  desire  to  seek  a  more  ideal  form  of  visual correction.  A  group  of  spectacle  wearers  also  was surveyed  to  form  a baseline  of  similarly  encountered problems .  A  computer  analysis for  more  than  40 signs, symptoms, and inconveniences  was then done on  various  groups  to  determine  statistical  signifi­cances  when  the  five groups  were  compared  with each other.