Research Article

Trust in the Provider and Glaucoma-Related Blindness

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Subjects’ score on the Trust in Physician Scale, an 11-item self-administered questionnaire measuring patients’ trust in the provider (scaled 0–100 with 100 indicating greatest trust) is plotted on the y-axis. (a) For subjects self-reporting white race, the TPS scores were similar for subjects with glaucoma-related blindness in one or both eyes ( 𝑛 = 1 2 , TPS score 7 7 . 0 8 ± 7 . 6 6 ) versus subjects without glaucoma-related blindness in either eye ( 𝑛 = 1 0 , TPS score 7 6 . 3 6 ± 6 . 7 1 ; 𝑃 = 0 . 8 2 ). (b) For subjects self-reporting nonwhite race (all but one if which identified as African American), TPS scores were significantly lower for subjects with glaucoma-related blindness in one or both eyes ( 𝑛 = 9 , TPS score 7 2 . 0 0 ± 6 . 2 2 ) versus subjects without glaucoma-related blindness ( 𝑛 = 2 9 , TPS score 7 9 . 6 2 ± 6 . 9 4 , 𝑃 = 0 . 0 0 5 ).
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