The role of peripheral retinal imaging is evolving very fast, especially after advancement of wide-field imaging technology. In a routine clinic, the retina specialist examines the peripheral lesions with the indirect ophthalmoscope, and they verbally explain about the lesion and need of treatment. Most of these peripheral lesions do not cause the visual disturbance. However, they are considered as risk factor for retinal complications [1]. Counseling plays an important role to make asymptomatic patients understand whenever treatment is advised. Several authors have established the decisive role of images-assisted health communication is many areas of medicine [2,3,4,5]. However, the role of image-based counseling of patients for peripheral retinal lesions is not well studied. We investigated the role of image-based counseling compared to verbal counseling for the management of peripheral retinal lesions.

The data collected from the patients were analyzed using SPSS version 16.0 for windows. Descriptive analysis was carried out to exhibit the frequency observations, mean and standard deviation. Independent t-test analysis was used to test the significant difference between two groups on selected variables.

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