Prevalence of Ocular Morbidity in 5 to 14 Years Children in an Urban Resettlement Colony of New Delhi, India.

Autor: Chauhan, H., Dohare, S., Khandekar, J., Pradhan, S. K., Jain, R., Mahajan, H.
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Zdroj: Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development; Oct-Dec2013, Vol. 4 Issue 4, p25-28, 4p
Abstrakt: Objective: To study the prevalence of ocular morbidities in children between 5 to 14 years in an urban resettlement colony of Delhi. Materials and method: It is a community based cross-sectional study in Kalyanpuri, an urban resettlement colony and the urban field practice area of department of Community Medicine, Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi. A semi-structured, pre-tested questionnaire was prepared and filled by the principal investigator himself. A stratified random sample of 650 children using the proportionate allocation method was taken for the study. This was about 10% of the estimated children's population of the colony. Data was tabulated & analyzed using SPSS for windows software version 10.5. Results: 25% of the study subjects were found to be suffering from some kind of ocular morbidity with 10.46% suffering from infectious & 15.69% from non-infectious disease. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Databáze: Complementary Index