Abstract:

Glaucoma is a kind of typical physical-mental disease. It is good to educate the patients about glaucoma knowledge, relieve their psychological disturbance, and improve the compliance and therapeutic effect. Shanghai Glaucoma Club is the earliest and biggest organization of glaucoma patients in China. Through regular activities, it can effectively improve the patient's awareness of the disease, reduce the psychological problems of patients such as anxiety and depression, and provide good resource to carry out epidemiological investigation based on a stable patients group. Furthermore, through Shanghai Glauoma Club such a bridge, the doctor-patient relationship has been effectively improved. (Ophthalmol CHN, 2015, 24: 358-360)