| Attitude items | Disagree | Neutral | Agree | |||
| No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | |
| If the vision is good, it means that the eyes are not affected due to diabetes. Hence, no need to visit an eye doctor every year | 247 | 72.9% | 31 | 9.1% | 61 | 18.0% |
| If treatment was started for an eye problem, no need to worry about controlling sugar & lipid | 243 | 71.7% | 50 | 14.7% | 46 | 13.6% |
| Patients with diabetes often waste their time and money on eye checkups as most of the time eyes of diabetics are normal | 251 | 74.0% | 49 | 14.5% | 39 | 11.5% |
| If a diabetic patient was treated with laser once, no need for laser treatment again in that eye to treat complications of diabetes | 145 | 42.8% | 0 | 0.0% | 194 | 57.2% |