1New England College of Optometry, Boston, Massachusetts
2California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, California
3Eye Vision Associates, Nesconset, New York
4College of Optometry, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
5Department of Ophthalmology, Stein Eye Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
*malkina@neco.edu
Supplemental Digital Content: The Appendix A, available at http://links.lww.com/OPX/A432, consists of the full survey that was administered during the data collection for this original investigation.
Submitted: May 28, 2019
Accepted: October 14, 2019
Funding/Support: None of the authors have reported funding/support.
Conflict of Interest Disclosure: None of the authors have reported a financial conflict of interest.
Author Contributions and Acknowledgments: Conceptualization: AGM, NCR, TLC, KP, AKB; Data Curation: AGM, NCR, TLC, KP, AKB; Formal Analysis: AGM, NCR, TLC, AKB; Investigation: AGM, NCR, TLC, AKB; Methodology: AGM, NCR, TLC, AKB; Project Administration: AGM, KP; Software: AKB; Validation: NCR, AKB; Visualization: AKB; Writing – Original Draft: AGM, TLC, AKB; Writing – Review & Editing: AGM, NCR, TLC, KP, AKB.
The authors are grateful for mentorship from their advisor from the AAO Fellows Doing Research SIG, Dr. Barbara Caffery. The authors wish to thank Dr. Annette Bade and Vanessa McDonald from the Nova Southeastern University, College of Optometry, for their assistance with survey administration at the continuing education events.
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