‘The tool is designed for the patient to fill in themselves in a few minutes. The tool was developed within the remit of Dr Downie’s NHMRC Translating Research Into Practice (TRIP) Fellowship and can be used to longitudinally track changes to smoking habits and motivation levels to quit smoking. The tool can also be used on former smokers to determine their relative level of risk for AMD.’ ‘Many optometrists are aware that they should be routinely asking their patients about smoking but this tool helps to clarify the key questions to ask. ‘The evidence is clear that smoking is a major modifiable risk factor for a range of eye diseases,’ she said.
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They launched the tool at a free two-hour workshop attended by about 70 Victorian optometrists in November.ĭr Downie said the tool allowed optometrists to quickly and accurately capture key information about individual patients’ smoking behaviours and featured evidence-based summary tables to stratify patients’ associated risk of long-term eye disease. It was developed by Dr Laura Downie and Associate Professor Peter Keller, both from the University of Melbourne’s Department of Optometry and Vision Sciences. The quantitative clinical smoking behaviour tool, the first of its kind for primary eye care clinicians, enables optometrists to personally encourage each smoker to quit.
Dr Laura Downie and Associate Professor Peter Keller launch their smoking cessation toolĪ new, free smoking behaviour tool captures patient information about smoking habits and how these relate to their risk of developing smoking-related eye conditions.
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