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  1. Lim, Swee Geok, Lim, Aun Cyi, Wong, Xiao Jing
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    Introduction: The prevalence of cataract surgeries
    ranges from 7 to 12 million cases in 2000, 20 million
    in 2010 and an estimation of 32 million cataract
    surgeries annually by the year 2020 worldwide (WHO,
    2015). Traditionally, the healthcare providers were
    only able to give health education before the patient
    is discharged from the healthcare setting while followup
    can only be done when the patient comes for their
    follow-up. But most of the patients will remain confused
    or had forgotten about the post-operative care even
    after receiving a comprehensive discharge preparation.
    However, with the advancement of technologies in
    this modern era, nurse-led telephone follow-up can be
    considered as a tool to assist healthcare providers in the
    follow-up care in Malaysia. On the same note, a private
    eye specialist organisation with centres throughout
    Malaysia, had taken the initiative to provide telephone
    follow-up service for their patients with three main
    objectives namely, to provide pre- and post-education
    on cataract surgery, to detect early post cataract surgery
    complications as well as to minimise anxiety among
    their patients. However, till date no patient feedback
    regarding the service was conducted.

    Objective: The research objective for this study was to
    determine patient’s level of satisfaction with the nurseled
    telephone follow-up after cataract surgery at a private
    eye specialist centre in Penang.

    Method: A cross sectional quantitative descriptive study
    design was used to study ninety post cataract patients in
    a private hospital, Penang through universal sampling
    method. A validated self-developed questionnaire based
    on the three main objectives of the telephone follow-up
    service was used for this study.

    Results: Overall, the level of patient’s satisfaction with
    nurse-led telephone follow-up after cataract surgery at
    a private eye specialist centre in Penang was high (49.9
    ±4.85) especially for the health education provided
    (4.18 ±0.21) followed by the effort to detect early
    complications (4.16 ±0.12) and to minimise patients’
    anxiety level (4.16 ±0.12).
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