Implementation of intervention
DM
RETINA
The retina specialist and the optometrist/outreach coordinator of REMEH conducted the intervention. The assistant manager of the hospital was responsible for the logistics. There was no control group in this study. A pilot was done before the main intervention started.A pilot was conducted In Feb 19,2021 to the health professionals of Krishna Prasad Hospital on Feb1The intervention for selected health personnel of Scheer was conducted after 8 months of baseline data collection as a once-a-month health education session for three months. (February 2021-April 2021) in REMEH. The post intervention data collection started from February 2021 as soon as the first intervention started.First intervention was conducted on health personnel of Scheer memorial Hospital on February 6, 2021. Proper COVID-19 guidelines were followed with social distancing and masks. The participants were provided with transportation and refreshments.Before we began our intervention, all the participants signed the consent form that included details of age, gender, qualification, and years of experience. In the first session, we conducted a pre- intervention assessment by providing a baseline questionnaire to the participants. Questionnaire was translated into native language. At the end we judged their knowledge with pre intervention questionnaire. We made sure all questions were attempted. The principal investigator, retina specialist made power point presentation.We conducted the second round of intervention on March 16, 2021.Fourteen participants attended the session. Two medical officers from the previous session did not participate and two new medical officers participated in the second session. Our optometrist distributed the pamphlets and explained the contents. Participants were reminded to counsel DM patients to visit REMEH, use referral slip while referring patients to REMEH, handover DR-related pamphlets to DM patients and finally record total cases referred to REMEH in a month.The third and final intervention was held on April 23, 2021. Total of 14 participants participated in this session. The session started with post intervention questionnaire. We collected answer sheets and gave answers to all questions in an interactive session. At the end we distributed additional referral slips and pamphlets.The same questionnaire was shared with all the participants via goggle form after 2 months on July1, 2021. All the 14 participants filled the answers.