DR. A.B OSAIYUWU

This study aimed to determine the compliance and non-compliance of University of Benin students to prescription spectacle wears. Random sampling technique was used to select subjects from the various faculties in the university of Benin as a total number of three hundred subjects were selected which was made up of 233 females and 67 males as a semi-structured questionnaires were distributed to them, which had questions that would help determine compliance and non-compliance level. The questionnaires were given to subjects that are known to be prescription spectacle wearers and instructions were given as regard how to fill the questionnaires and the data were collated after the subjects had filled the questionnaires. The statistical test used for the analysis was the chi-square from the Package of SPSS (version 22.0) to check for the scores and variables obtained in the study. In conclusion, there were more female subjects than males subjects, and the level of compliance was found to be higher than level of non-compliance. The result showed that 76.3% of the subjects had their glasses from optometrist, 9.7% from ophthalmologist and optician respectively, while 4.3% from an outreach. The result also showed that 73 (24.3%) of the subjects believed that they often lose their eye glasses as reason for non-compliance while 227 (75.7%) of the subjects disagreed to the statement. It was also seen that 194 (64.7%) of the subjects disagreed that eye glasses are most useful to them only during exams, while 106 (35.3%) agreed.