Development and performance evaluation of a Bengali-adapted mHealth app for early detection of impaired visual acuity
Monzurul Haque, Marzia Zaman, Ashraful Islam, Farhana Sarker, Nahid Ferdausi, Khondaker A Mamun · 2024
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Description
Haque and five co-authors built and tested Dristi, a Bengali-adapted phone app for eye screening, in twenty twenty-four. Poor vision goes undetected in low-resource settings like Bangladesh, where clinic access is thin. A phone test in the local language could catch problems early.
The Android app checks far and near vision using adapted Bengali letters, modeled on the Snellen chart, plus color blindness tests and eye health lessons. Validation ran from June to September twenty twenty-two across hospitals, a school, and a clinic. Accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity looked promising for both distance and near tests, though results varied by site. Many participants also had diabetes or hypertension, common eye health risks. The authors see the app as a step toward wider mHealth eye care.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Monzurul Haque, Marzia Zaman, Ashraful Islam, Farhana Sarker, Nahid Ferdausi, Khondaker A Mamun |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 49 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |