'Assessing patients' perception of the potential utility of visual function home monitoring app among patients with diabetes in Saudi Arabia'.

Aims: To determine the acceptability and identify potential concerns and barriers of using a hypothetical smartphone application (app) for home monitoring (HM) of visual function among patients with diabetes.

Methods: Quantitative, cross-sectional study using a self-administered questionnaire. Patients diagnosed with diabetes aged between 20 and 70 years were included.

Biogenic Synthesis of Photosensitive Magnesium Oxide Nanoparticles Using Citron Waste Peel Extract and Evaluation of Their Antibacterial and Anticarcinogenic Potential.

Background: Magnesium oxide nanoparticles (MgONPs) have been fabricated by several approaches, including green chemistry approach due to diverse application and versatile features.

Objectives: The current study aimed to prepare a convenient, biocompatible, and economically viable MgONPs using waste citron peel extract (CP-MgONPs) to evaluate their biological applications.

Methods: The CP-MgONPs were synthesized by a sustainable approach from extract of waste citron peel both as capping and reducing agents without use of any hazardous material.

Effect of curfew from the COVID-19 pandemic on amblyopia treatment in children in Saudi Arabia.

Background: Amblyopia was defined as a reduction in the best-corrected visual acuity in one or both eyes with the presence of amblyogenic factors.

Objective: The aim of this work was to investigate the effect of curfews resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic on amblyopia treatment in children.

Design: A prospective longitudinal study.

Binocular treatment for amblyopic children: a review.

The narrative review was planned to investigate the efficiency of binocular treatment for amblyopic children, and to compare it with the standard methods. Literature search was conducted for articles in English language available on PubMed, Cochrane Library, Embase, Medline and PsycInfo databases as well as through bibliographies of peer-reviewed studies. Studies in the field of binocular treatment for amblyopia were included.

Validation of the Arabic version of the quality of life impact of refractive correction questionnaire.

Purpose: To validate the Arabic version of the quality of life impact of refractive correction (QIRC) questionnaire.

Methods: This was a cross-sectional study included participants with refractive errors (myopia, hypermetropia, or astigmatism) aged between 19 and 40 years who were pre or postrefractive surgeries. Uncorrected distance visual acuity, refraction, and corneal topography were collected.

Association of Vitamin D deficiency with primary glaucoma among Saudi population - A pilot study.

Purpose: Glaucoma is a complex multifactorial disorder that is influenced by various systemic conditions. Several studies investigated the association between systemic factors such as Vitamin D deficiency for glaucoma development and reported contradicted findings. The aim of this study was to assess Vitamin D levels in glaucomatous Saudi subjects and its association with cup/disc ratio in primary open- and closed-angle glaucoma.

Grapefruit Extract-Mediated Fabrication of Photosensitive Aluminum Oxide Nanoparticle and Their Antioxidant and Anti-Inflammatory Potential.

Aluminum oxide nanoparticles (AlO NPs) were synthesized using a simple, eco-friendly green synthesis approach in an alkaline medium from the extract of grapefruit peel waste. The pre-synthesized, nano-crystalline AlO NPs were characterized by using spectroscopic (UV-vis, FTIR, XRD, and EDX) and microscopic (SEM and TEM) techniques. The formed AlO NPs exhibited a pronounced absorption peak at 278 nm in the UV-vis spectrum.

Visual outcomes and quality of life before and after photorefractive keratectomy.

Purpose: To compare visual outcomes and vision-related quality of life (VRQoL) between subjects before and after photorefractive keratotomy (PRK) and controls. In addition, VRQoL was compared between subjects at different periods of PRK surgery.

Methods: This was a cross-sectional study that included subjects with refractive errors aged 19-40 years and age-matched controls.

Assessment of visual function and Vision-related Quality of Life in female contact lens wearers with Dry Eye Syndrome.

Purpose: To assess visual function and Vision-related Quality of Life (VRQOL) in female contact lens wearers with Dry Eye Syndrome in Riyadh city, Saudi Arabia.

Methods: This was a cross sectional study. Saudi Females subjects with and without DES (contact lens wearer [CLW] and Non-contact lens wearers [NCLW]) aged between 16 and 35 years were included in this study.

Measurement of anterior segment parameters in Saudi adults with myopia.

Purpose: To measure anterior segment parameters of the eye in myopic Saudi population using Pentacam.

Method: This is retrospective cross-sectional study. Subjects were divided into three groups: low, moderate and high myopia groups.

Development and validation of the 21-item children's vision for living scale (CVLS) by Rasch analysis.

Background: The aim was to develop and validate an instrument called the 'Children's Vision for Living Scale' (CVLS) for the assessment of vision-related quality of life in Saudi Arabian children with and without amblyopia.

Methods: A 43-item child self-report questionnaire was initially developed based on interviews with children with amblyopia, their parents and eye-care professionals, and a literature review. Following a process that involved the removal of redundant items, 28 items remained and were piloted on children aged five to 12 years with and without amblyopia (n = 48 amblyopic, n = 53 non-amblyopic) living in Saudi Arabia.