Table 2 Association of dry eye syndrome severity with socio-demographic data.
Demographic characteristics | The severity of dry eye syndrome | P-value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Not symptomatic | Mild symptoms | Moderate symptoms | Severe symptoms | ||
Gender | |||||
Male | 134 (60.6%) | 43 (42.6%) | 34 (43.6%) | 17 (29.8%) |  < 0.001* |
Female | 87 (39.4%) | 58 (57.4%) | 44 (56.4%) | 40 (70.2%) | |
College | |||||
Medicine colleges | 142 (64.3%) | 61 (60.4%) | 42 (53.8%) | 33 (57.9%) | 0.407 |
Colleges of Humanities and Educational Sciences | 20 (9%) | 14 (13.9%) | 8 (10.3%) | 8 (14%) | |
Science and engineering colleges | 34 (15.4%) | 12 (11.9%) | 18 (23.1%) | 6 (10.5%) | |
Shariah and administration | 25 (11.3%) | 14 (13.9%) | 25 (11.3%) | 10 (17.5%) | |
