Socioeconomic Barriers to Rhegmatogenous Detachment Surgery in Brazil

Table 1

Mentioned reasons for delay in seeing a doctor after starting symptoms.

Reasons for delay in seeing a doctor
Do not know where to go	10%
Thought that it was not a severe condition	70%
Thought that it would heal itself	56%
Do not have money to go to doctor	16%
Other reasons (do not have doctor in living city)	24%