Aditya Jyot-Diabetic Retinopathy in Urban Mumbai Slums Study (AJ-DRUMSS): study design and methodology - report 1.
OBJECTIVE
To describe the methodology of Aditya Jyot-Diabetic Retinopathy in Urban Mumbai Slums Study (AJ-DRUMSS), which was designed (i) to estimate the prevalence of diabetic retinopathy (DR) in a general population, (ii) to study the risk factors associated with DR in those with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM), and (iii) to create awareness for early detection and develop timely interventional management for DR.


METHODS
AJ-DRUMSS is an ongoing population-based cross sectional study conducted in seven wards of slums in Mumbai, India, wherein eligible subjects from the general population were screened for DR and profiled for their demographic, social and biochemical parameters to study the associations of these factors.


RESULTS
To date, nearly 54,000 households have been enumerated for both awareness and DR prevalence in five study areas (out of seven) during 17 awareness campaigns and 78 DR screening camps. Of these, 4295 households were included in AJ-DRUMSS. Nearly 15,000 camp subjects (including subjects from awareness-focused areas who also turned up for the screening camps) were screened from the total enumerated households, of which 16.1% were diagnosed with type 2 DM. A total of 14.5% of these had evidence of DR and 3.5% had sight-threatening DR.


CONCLUSIONS
A detailed study design of AJ-DRUMSS is described. In the screening camps nearly 3.5% of the diabetic population had sight-threatening DR, which needed an active interventional strategy. This study will help in formulating efficient eye care policies, making optimum use of available resources, reorienting healthcare providers and the ignorant within the population regarding the need for periodic ophthalmic surveillance and timely intervention.
Aditya Jyot Foundation , Mumbai, Maharashtra , India .
Mohan
M
Sunita
Shachi
S
Desai
Prasad
P
Vinay
Samita
S
Moolani
Navendu
N
Rai
Sheth
S
Deepen
Rogiye
R
Ashwini
Sonawane
S
Manish
Gawali
G
Hemangi
Oliullah
O
Abdal
Pandurang
P
Kulkarni
Arindam
A
Chakravarti
Satagopan
S
Uthra
Rajiv
R
Raman
Srinivasan
S
Radhika
Sundaram
S
Natarajan
Govindasamy
G
Kumaramanickavel
Catherine
C
McCarty
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001364:Awareness; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000453:epidemiology; D003930:Diabetic Retinopathy / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011204:Poverty Areas; D015995:Prevalence; D012107:Research Design; D012307:Risk Factors