Prevalence of uncorrected refractive errors among school-age children in the School District of Philadelphia
| Autor: | Michael Pond, James Donaghy, Eileen L. Mayro, Tingting Zhan, Judie Tran, Marlee Silverstein, Eric Shiuey, Linda Siam, Lisa A Hark, Tamara Hill-Bennett, Alex V. Levin, Nitasha Khanna, Ann P. Murchison |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Refractive error Urban Population genetic structures Population Visual Acuity School district Astigmatism 03 medical and health sciences Vision Screening 0302 clinical medicine Blurred vision 030225 pediatrics Prevalence medicine Humans Medical diagnosis Child education Anisometropia Philadelphia education.field_of_study Schools business.industry Refractive Errors medicine.disease eye diseases Ophthalmology Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Decreased Visual Acuity 030221 ophthalmology & optometry Optometry Female medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus. 22:214-217.e2 |
| ISSN: | 1091-8531 |
| Popis: | To determine the prevalence and severity of uncorrected refractive errors in school-age children attending Philadelphia public schools.The Wills Eye Vision Screening Program for Children is a community-based pediatric vision screening program designed to detect and correct refractive errors and refer those with nonrefractive eye diseases for examination by a pediatric ophthalmologist. Between January 2014 and June 2016 the program screened 18,974 children in grades K-5 in Philadelphia public schools. Children who failed the vision screening were further examined by an on-site ophthalmologist or optometrist; children whose decreased visual acuity was not amenable to spectacle correction were referred to a pediatric ophthalmologist.Of the 18,974 children screened, 2,492 (13.1%) exhibited uncorrected refractive errors: 1,776 (9.4%) children had myopia, 459 (2.4%) had hyperopia, 1,484 (7.8%) had astigmatism, and 846 (4.5%) had anisometropia. Of the 2,492 with uncorrected refractive error, 368 children (14.8%) had more than one refractive error diagnosis. In stratifying refractive error diagnoses by severity, mild myopia (spherical equivalent of -0.50 D to -3.00 D) was the most common diagnosis, present in 1,573 (8.3%) children.In this urban population 13.1% of school-age children exhibited uncorrected refractive errors. Blurred vision may create challenges for students in the classroom; school-based vision screening programs can provide an avenue to identify and correct refractive errors. |
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