Factors Associated with Poor Eye Drop Administration Technique and the Role of Patient Education among Hong Kong Elderly Population

Table 2

Univariate analysis for predicting the correlation between eye drop technique scores and demographic and clinical cognitive variables.

	Eye drop application technique score
	Preeducation		Postpre
	Correlation coefficient	value	Correlation coefficient	value
Age^#	−0.33	0.099	0.25	0.217
Sex	−0.40	0.042	0.39	0.048
Education level^#	0.33	0.100	−0.23	0.256
Better LogMAR VA^#	−0.02	0.941	−0.09	0.670
Worse LogMAR VA^#	−0.13	0.562	−0.09	0.674
Weighted average LogMAR VA^#	−0.06	0.793	−0.10	0.649
MoCA score^#	0.36	0.075	−0.27	0.191
FRAIL score^#	−0.56	0.003	0.49	0.012
Barthel index^#	−0.01	0.961	0.02	0.913
Lawton’s instrumental ADL score^#	0.13	0.529	0.19	0.345

^#Spearman correlation analysis; ^∗point biserial correlation analysis; variables enrolled were those with univariate significance of ≤0.5.