Title

Clinical and visual profile of ocular trauma in rural India: A cross-sectional descriptive study

Authors

Abhay Kumar¹, Bharti Badlani², Anjali Singh² & Pankaj Kushwaha^2,*

Affiliation

¹Department of ENT, Chhindwara Institute of Medical Sciences, Chhindwara, Madhya Pradesh, India; ²Department of Ophthalmology, Chhindwara Institute of Medical Sciences, Chhindwara, Madhya Pradesh, India; *Corresponding author

Email

Abhay Kumar - E-mail: abhaykr20@yahoo.co.in

Bharti Badlani - E-mail: drbhartisingh@rediffmail.com

Anjali Singh - E-mail: anjalibitiya07@gmail.com

Pankaj Kushwaha - E-mail: pankaj205020kushwaha@gmail.com

Article Type

Research Article

Date

Received July 1, 2025; Revised July 31, 2025; Accepted July 31, 2025, Published July 31, 2025

Abstract

Rural Indian communities are particularly vulnerable owing to agriculture-related hazards, delayed access to care, and limited eye-health literacy. Consecutive patients presenting with fresh or previously untreated mechanical ocular injury were enrolled. Clinical findings and initial/un-corrected visual acuity (VA) were recorded using the Birmingham Eye Trauma Terminology (BETT) and Ocular Trauma Score (OTS) frameworks. Community-level first-aid, rapid referral pathways and protective-eye-wear education substantially reduce blindness from eye injuries in rural settings.

Keywords

Ocular trauma; rural health; visual acuity; open-globe injury; birmingham eye trauma terminology; India

Citation

Kumar et al. Bioinformation 21(7): 1804-1807 (2025)

Edited by

P Babaji

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.