Presbyopia Screening by Community Health Worker in Bangladesh

The training module and the protocol were designed in a way that a layman with limited education could be trained for screening and could sell reading glasses without any hassle, accurately and responsibly. Training module included the general anatomy of eye, common vision problems, aetiologies, determination of proper acuity of vision, sales techniques of the reading glass, marketing of products and services, and management of inventory and referrals. All the providers who participated in the current study, had no prior experience/training of screening presbyopia before the intervention. Each of the intervention arm used letter acuity chart i.e. Snellen chart as it commonly used for as a test of visual acuity