Few studies of vision screening in school-aged children were reported in Tibetan Plateau. We herein summarize the results of a mandatory vision screening conducted in young children in the Tibetan Pla...
The Lhasa Childhood vision Screening (LCVS) performed uncorrected distant visual acuity (UCVA) test on primary school students in urban Lhasa from July to September 2019. Pin-hole corrected VA (PCVA) ...
Overall, 34,848 children aged 9.03 ± 1.87 years fulfilled the screening with a response rate of 98.5%. 18,412 (52.8%) of the participants were males, and 30,531(87.6%) were Tibetan. The prevalence of ...
This study documented a relatively low prevalence of decreased VA and VI in Tibetan primary school students than other urban populations in China. An increasing trend of poor vision with grades was fo...
Preschool vision screening is essential for the early detection and treatment of eye and vision problems....
The rate of parental adherence to referrals for comprehensive examination was assessed and factors and potential barriers associated with adherence were identified....
In a prospective cohort study design, parents were offered to bring their 3-6 year old aged children to free-of-charge vision screening tests at community-based Mother Child Health Centers. Children w...
Altogether 1283 children (mean age 4.5 ± 0.6 years, 47.8% girls) were screened in the Jerusalem district, Israel. The ethnic groups, Jewish (ultra-Orthodox 51.4%, secular/religious 33.2%) and Arab (15...
Only half the parents proceeded with the recommended full eye examination. Parents of older children were more likely to adhere to referral. In contrast with vaccinations provided by Mother Child Heal...
The purpose of this study is to report the distribution of astigmatism among school children in South India....
The study was conducted as part of a national school eye screening project named 'Refractive Error Among Children' (REACH) between 6 and 17 years of age. Children underwent presenting visual acuity sc...
Data of 245,565 children from 1047 schools were taken for analysis. The average age was 11.63 ± 3.32 (range:6-17) years. After screening, refractive errors and astigmatism was found to be 6.57% (n = 1...
More than 50% of children who failed vision screening with refractive errors presented with astigmatism. Prevalence was higher among primary school children. Presence of higher magnitude and unilatera...
Visual acuity (VA) screening in children primarily detects low VA and amblyopia between 3 and 6 years of age. Photoscreening is a low-cost, lower-expertise alternative which can be carried out on youn...
The EUSCREEN Screening Cost-Effectiveness Model was used together with published literature to estimate referral rates and case mix of referrals from different screening modalities (photoscreening and...
Earlier VA screening and photoscreening yield higher numbers of referrals because of lower sensitivity and specificity for disease, and a different case mix, compared to later VA screening. Photoscree...
All children should be screened for amblyopia and low vision before the age of 6. Very early detection of amblyopia refractive risk factors may prevent or mitigate amblyopia for some affected children...
Social determinants of health can limit access to regular eye care, but their role in ophthalmology is underexamined. The purpose of this study is to assess the relationship between patient characteri...
This anonymous, cross-sectional survey was conducted at a 2-day free eye clinic event in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Adult patients presenting for vision screening were eligible to participate. Patient ...
Of 269 eligible, consecutive patients approached for survey completion, 183 comprised the volunteer sample. The 183 participants (105 female patients [59%]) had a mean (standard deviation) age of 53 (...
Three-quarters of vision screening attendees reported at least one barrier to regular eye care, most commonly medical costs and insurance....
Preschool vision screening is recommended to reduce the incidence of amblyopia that persists into adulthood. However, parent's perceptions regarding the importance of screening and early intervention ...
Poor eye-health knowledge and health literacy are pervasive, contributing to worse outcomes. This study aims to examine short- and long-term eye-health knowledge retention following eye-health educati...
Vision Detroit was an outreach vision screening program that integrated a 5-Point Teaching Intervention (5PTI), at a Southwest Community Center (SW-CC) from 2015-2017. The 5PTI consists of eye-health ...
Two-hundred-seventeen adult patients met inclusion criteria, with 75.8% women, 82.6% Hispanic, mean age 50.4 ± 16.2 years, 74.6% had high school or less education, and 49.2% had health insurance. Test...
Simple eye-health education interventions, delivered during vision screenings and via community-based education, can improve eye-health knowledge....
To provide the prevalence of vision impairment and blindness among 250,000 school children aged 6 to 17 years, screened in Tamil Nadu, India....
The study was conducted between 2016 and 2019 as a part of the school eye screening program in Kanchipuram district, Tamil Nadu. The clinical examination included basic vision testing, objective refra...
A total of 250,052 children were screened in 1047 schools and the prevalence of vision impairment, blindness, and low vision in Kanchipuram district was 3.83%, 0.01%, 0.19%, respectively. The major ca...
This large-scale school eye screening reports a comparatively lower prevalence of vision impairment, blindness, and low vision when compared to other studies conducted around the world. Although the o...
To identify determinants of the utilisation of ophthalmic clinical health services among students who failed school vision screening....
This study employed a sequential explanatory mixed methods design, underpinned by Andersen's Behavioural Model of Health Service Utilisation. Data were initially gathered through interviews with 27 st...
The research revealed that students attending vision demonstration schools and receiving encouragement from schools or communities to access clinical ophthalmic services demonstrated higher adherence ...
The utilisation of ophthalmic clinical health services following vision screening failure in students is significantly influenced by public health services provided by schools or communities, such as ...
The objective of this review is to understand the barriers and facilitators of vision screening in the US primary care setting for children aged 3 to 17 years....
Childhood vision screening is crucial because it detects children at risk of undiagnosed vision problems. Previous studies report low rates of appropriate vision screening in the primary care setting....
Studies of all types that identify barriers and facilitators of vision screening in children aged 3 to 17 years in the pediatric primary care setting in the US will be considered for inclusion....
We will search PubMed, CINAHL Complete (EBSCO), Scopus, Web of Science (SCI-EXPANDED, ESCI, CPCI-S, SSCI), Cochrane Library, and Embase. We will also search gray literature, including conference proce...
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