Doctors Without Borders, Amsterdam, Holland. Noma Project, Sokoto, Nigeria.
Division of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Otolaryngology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Department of Otolaryngology, University Teaching Hospital Kigali, University of Rwanda, College of Medicine & Health Sciences, Kigali, Rwanda.
Vision screening during childhood is vital for the early detection and treatment of visual impairment that may significantly impact a child's development and quality of life. This nationwide cross-sec...
For a good vision screening battery to quickly and accurately reflect the status of the human visual system it should be relevant, reliable, and streamlined. Because the early visual system has limite...
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 1.5 billion and 2.2 billion people have hearing and vision impairment, respectively. The burden of these non-communicable diseases is highest in low-...
A keyword search of three electronic databases, namely Scopus, MEDLINE (PubMed), and Web of Science, was conducted, resulting in 219 results. After removing duplicates and screening based on eligibili...
Most studies (63.2%) were from high-income countries, with 31.6% from middle-income and 5.2% from low-income countries. The majority of studies (78.9%) involved children and the four studies reporting...
There is limited research evidence for combined hearing and vision screening programs. Although potential benefits are demonstrated, especially for mHealth-supported programs in communities, more feas...
The aim was to investigate universality of access, screening rate, and outcomes from the New South Wales (NSW) Statewide Eyesight Preschooler Screening (StEPS) over the period of 2009 to 2016....
Cross-sectional, observational study....
The StEPS program provides vision screening to 4-year-old children residing in NSW and is administered within Local Health Districts (LHDs). Visual acuity (VA) was examined by trained lay and nurse sc...
A total of 719,686 (96.4%) NSW 4-year-old children were offered StEPS vision screening between 2009 and 2016, 84% accepted and 564,825 children (75.6%) were screened. The screening rate increased from...
StEPS is an ideal service model for preschool vision screening providing coverage that is comparable to school-based screening programs and at an age likely to facilitate optimal treatment outcomes....
To investigate the relationship between neighbourhood disadvantage and vision screening failure rates....
This analysis uses aggregate data from pre-kindergarten to eighth grade schools participating in a school-based vision programme in Baltimore, Maryland, from 2016 to 2019. Data on number of students s...
Nine hundred seventy-two grades across 117 schools were included in this analysis. Median national ADI percentile across the sample was 71 [interquartile range (IQR): 48-85] (100 = most deprived). The...
In this study, there was no association between vision screening failure rates and school ADI. With one in three students failing screening in a high poverty public school district, these findings sug...
Myopia prevalence has increased in the UK at age 10-16y, but little is known about younger children. We hypothesise that if the 'myopia epidemic' is affecting young children, then there will be increa...
Retrospective anonymised data from computerised vision screening at age 4-5 years were analysed from serial cross-sectional data. Refractive error is not assessed in UK vision screening, so vision was...
Anonymised raw data were obtained for 359,634 screening episodes from 2075 schools. Once schools were excluded where data were not available for every year and data were cleaned, the final database co...
For children 4-5 years of age, there were signs of reduced vision over the last 7 years in England. Consideration of the most likely causes support the hypothesis of increasing myopia. The increase in...
Effective vision screening programs for children require follow-up with eye care providers, but studies demonstrate poor follow-up rates after failed screenings. Programs have attempted to address thi...
Between 2018 and 2021, a nonprofit organization provided in-school instrument-based screening and noncycloplegic examinations and refractions in elementary, middle, and high schools. Deidentified scre...
In the 2019-2020 school year, 14,006 students from 58 schools were screened, and 4,238 (30.3%) were referred. The percentage of economically disadvantaged students was positively correlated to referra...
A combined screening program and mobile clinic traveling directly to schools can provide a pipeline for delivering eye care to vulnerable populations....
Children in socioeconomically disadvantaged communities often do not access follow-up eye care services when referred from vision screenings; whether this is due to lack of availability is not known. ...
Vision impairments develop from a young age and may inhibit learning experiences and impact life outcomes. Vision screening to detect and refer vision abnormalities supports children in their educatio...
The programme involved all prep children from participating schools in Queensland. Vision screening was conducted with the Parr 4 m Visual Acuity Test and Welch Allyn Spot Vision Screener. A cross-sec...
Of 71,003 prep students screened, 4,855 (6.8%) received a referral recommendation. A higher proportion of children who received a referral recommendation was from more disadvantaged locations (?2 = 10...
It is important that vision screening programmes target disadvantaged populations and support families of children who require further health assessment to access health services....
Nationwide in Japan, a community-based vision-screening program in 3.5-year-old children is conducted in three steps: questionnaires and home visual acuity testing as the primary screening; visual acu...
For cost-effectiveness comparison of child vision and hearing screening programmes, methods and data should be available. We assessed the current state of data collection and its availability in Europ...
The EUSCREEN Questionnaire, conducted in 2017-2018, assessed paediatric vision and hearing screening programmes in 45 countries in Europe. For the current study, its items on data collection, monitori...
The practice of data collection in vision screening was reported in 36% (N = 42) of countries and in hearing screening in 81% (N = 43); collected data were published in 12% and 35%, respectively. Proc...
Data collection is insufficient in hearing screening and even more so in vision screening: data essential for cost-effectiveness comparison could not be reported from most countries. When collection t...
