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According to a recent study by Ipsos, more than one in two French people are worried about their visual health, while 3 out of 4 French people say they wear glasses or contact lenses.
According to a recent Ipsos study for the SNOF, more than one in two French people (57%) say “concerned” by his visual health. “A figure that reaches 65% among wearers of corrective equipment”. The vast majority (69%) of 16-34 year olds are concerned about their visual health, nearly a quarter of them (24%) are “very concerned”. Those aged 55 and over are not left out and 61% of them share this concern.
Faced with this anxiety, not everyone is in the same boat. Only 36% of people not wearing corrective equipment say they are concerned, “which may present a risk in the future detection of correction needs”comments the study.
Whereas 3 out of 4 French people say they wear glasses or other corrective equipment, this equipment is relatively new for the majority of them. 69% say they have equipped themselves in the past two years. In detail, 71% of respondents say they wear prescription glasses issued by an optician. Next come contact lenses with 10% and magnifying glasses with 8%.
Difficult access to care
How long does it take to make an appointment with a practitioner? Except emergency, for 39% of French people, it is normal to wait more than a month. 20% of them can wait between 1 and 2 months and 19% are ready to wait more than 2 months. Special mention to the inhabitants of agglomerations of less than 20,000 inhabitants, which represents 45% of people ready to wait more than a month to obtain an appointment. In the Paris area, only 17% are ready to wait more than a month.
What about the presence of ophthalmologists in the territory? “67% of French people want to be able to get to their ophthalmologist in 30 minutes maximum, and a third of French people (33%) would go up to 45 minutes or more of travel time“, says the study.
“This study helps to highlight the expectations of French people in terms of access to care: it reveals that they consider it acceptable to make a journey of up to 30 minutes and to obtain an appointment within a months. The latest advances in terms of appointment times and territorial coverage make it possible to meet these expectations. The prospects with the development of secondary practices and multidisciplinary teamwork are promising.”concluded in a press release Doctor Thierry Bour, President of the SNOF.