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Oculo-Visual Findings among Industrial Mine Workers at Goldfields Ghana Limited, Tarkwa
Go Ovenseri-Ogbomo1, S Ocansey, Ek Abu
1Department of Optometry, University of Cape Coast, Ghana.
Objective:
The focus of this study was to evaluate the visual status of mine workers who were directly involved in mining and/or are exposed to the mining environment.
Methods:
A hospital based cross-sectional study was conducted. Four hundred and six (406) workers were conveniently sampled for the study. Information on their socio-demographic data was also collected. In addition, all participants underwent ophthalmic examination.
Results:
The mean age of the workers was 41.1 years. Visual impairment was found in 114 (28.1%) of the study population of which refractive error (56.8%) was the major cause. Presbyopia was also observed in 45.5% of the workers with only 30.3% of them wearing near correction. The prevalence of eye diseases were pterygium/pingueculae (25.8%), conjunctivitis (26.8%), suspected glaucoma (15.3%), and cataract (7.4%).
Conclusions:
Visual impairment and eye diseases were found among the miners.
