RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DEGREE OF OPTICAL NERVE DAMAGE ON LEVEL OF DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY PATIENT WITH PRIMARY GLAUCOMA Oral Presentation - Observational Study - Resident

Abstract

Introduction & Objectives
Glaucoma is one of the leading causes of irreversible global blindness and the second most common
cause of blindness in the world after cataracts. Depression and anxiety often occur in glaucoma
patients when glaucoma is first diagnosed, the effect of decreased vision function in glaucoma, side
effects of glaucoma therapy both medically and surgically and financial effects due to length of
treatment and loss of job due to limited vision. This study aims to determine the relationship of the
degree of optic nerve damage to the level of depression and anxiety in patients with primary
glaucoma.

Methods
This research is an analytic, prospective observational research with a cross-sectional study
approach. The relationship between independent variables and dependent variables was analyzed.

Results
The Man Whitney test found a significant difference in anxiety scores between the severe and mild
to moderate groups with a p value of 0.020 . The ANCOVA test found that there was a relationship
between the degree of optic nerve damage in primary glaucoma and the level of anxiety after
controlling for control variables.

Conclusion
This study can be concluded that there is a difference in the level of anxiety between the degree of
severe and mild to moderate optic nerve damage. The level of anxiety itself corresponds to the
degree of damage to the optic nerve. The more severe the damage to the optic nerve, increased of
the patient's anxiety score.