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Abstract
Background: Eye is used for almost all activity that performed, that is why vision is sense that is valued for human beings in general and specifically for pregnant women. Pregnancy-related ocular changes can lead to several potential consequences throughout the life course of pregnant women. The current study aimed to assess knowledge and practice of high risk pregnant women regarding eye care during pregnancy. Design: A descriptive cross sectional study design was used to accomplish the aim of the current study in High-risk unit at Mansoura University Hospital and outpatient antenatal clinics of New Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital in Mansoura city. A convenient sample of 150 pregnant women who were diagnosed as high-risk related pregnancy conditions. One tool was used for data collection to assess participants’ health profile and structured interviewing questionnaire schedule to assess women’ knowledge level about pregnancy-related physiological and pathological ocular changes and pregnant women’ eye health care practices during pregnancy. Results of this study shows that nearly the half (49.3 %) of the studied women didn’t know that pregnancy changes the physiology of the eye, 39.3% of them didn’t know that preeclampsia disturbs vision,46.7% of them didn’t know that eye surgery can manage cataract sight loss, the majority (88.7%) of them didn’t realize that diabetic retinopathy is a common complication for diabetes mellitus and 85.3%of them couldn’t define glaucoma correctly as a damage of the optic nerve due to high intraocular pressure as well as 74% of them had unsatisfactory level of eye heath care practices during pregnancy. This study concluded that high risk pregnant women had poor knowledge about pregnancy-related ocular changes and unsatisfactory level of eye heath care practices. Thus, it is recommended to develop health educational guideline to improve high-risk pregnant women’ awareness about pregnancy-related ocular changes and eye heath care practices during pregnancy.Keywords: Eye care, high-risk pregnant women, knowledge, practices.