Abstract
Purpose
To determine the proportion of soft contact lens (CL) wearers who are able to recall
their habitual products (lenses and care system) correctly from memory, and to evaluate
the value of using photographic aids (PAs) to improve recall.
Methods
103 soft lens wearers attended 2 visits to investigate their habitual CL product use.
At the first visit they were asked to recall which products they were using and then
to identify their products from PAs. They returned for a second visit with their products
for confirmation.
Results
51% correctly reported their lens brands from memory alone, which improved to 87%
with the use of the PAs (p < 0.001). 41% correctly reported their habitual care system from memory alone, which
improved to 80% with the use of PAs (p < 0.001). Females were better at recalling care system brand names than males (49% versus
27% correct, p = 0.040) and wearers with more than 1 year experience with their habitual CLs had better
recall than those with up to 1 year experience (63% versus 27%, p = 0.014).
Conclusion
Less than 50% of contact lens wearers were able to recall the names of their habitual
lens and lens care products correctly from memory. PAs improved this recall significantly
for both contact lenses and contact lens care systems.
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: July 08, 2011
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Copyright
© 2011 British Contact Lens Association. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
