Association between parents’ attitudes and behaviors toward children's visual care and myopia risk in school-aged children
| Autor: | Ting Xu, Meixia Lu, He-xin Wang, Li-hua Yang, Shi-qing Wu, Dandan Du, Xiuxiu Li, Benlin Lu, Shuang Zhou |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Parents 0301 basic medicine Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent genetic structures Parents attitudes school-aged children education MEDLINE Observational Study Health knowledge parents’ attitudes and behaviors 03 medical and health sciences Vision Screening 0302 clinical medicine Risk Factors Surveys and Questionnaires Myopia Humans Medicine Child Association (psychology) School age child business.industry visual care General Medicine eye diseases 030104 developmental biology Socioeconomic Factors Family medicine 030221 ophthalmology & optometry Female Observational study business Research Article |
| Zdroj: | Medicine |
| ISSN: | 0025-7974 |
| Popis: | The purpose of this survey was to determine the association of parents’ attitudes and behaviors toward children's visual care with myopia risk in school-aged children. A total of 894 parents of school-aged children were investigated in primary and middle schools in the central and noncentral urban area in Wuhan through stratified cluster random sampling on July, 2015. We analyzed the association by the generalized linear mixed model. The results indicated that children with parents’ high expectations of 1.5 or higher on their vision exhibited a decreased risk of myopia compared with 1.0 and 0.5 or lower (OR = 0.49, 95%CI = 0.36–0.67). Children whose parents only paid attention to their vision in junior and senior school and in primary school had an increased myopia risk than that in preschool (OR = 2.12, 95%CI = 1.01–4.45, and OR = 3.11, 95%CI = 1.28–7.58, respectively). Children whose parents ensured for their sufficient sleep had a decreased myopia risk (OR = 0.45, 95%CI = 0.24–0.85). Compared with children whose parents who never adjusted electronic devices’ parameters, the odds ratio of sometimes was 0.49 (95%CI = 0.31–0.79), often 0.53 (95%CI = 0.33–0.85), and always 0.44 (95%CI = 0.26–0.75), respectively. Parents’ attitudes and behaviors toward children's visual care are significantly associated with the myopia risk in school-aged children. Consequently, efforts should be made to educate parents on how they protect children's vision and reduce their risk of myopia. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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