Prevalence and Determinants of Spectacle Nonwear Among Rural Chinese Secondary Schoolchildren The Xichang Pediatric Refractive Error Study Report 3
Prevalence and Determinants of Spectacle Nonwear Among Rural Chinese Secondary Schoolchildren The Xichang Pediatric Refractive Error Study Report 3
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DOI:
10.1001/archopht.126.12.1717
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发表时间:
2008-12-01
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Lam, Dennis S. C.
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作者:
Congdon, Nathan;Zheng, Mingwei;Lam, Dennis S. C.
Objective: To study spectacle wear among rural Chinese children.Methods: Visual acuity, refraction, spectacle wear, and visual function were measured.Results: Among 1892 subjects (84.7% of the sample), the mean (SD) age was 14.7 (0.8) years. Among 948 children (50.1%) potentially benefiting from spectacle wear, 368 (38.8%) did not own them. Among 580 children owning spectacles, 17.9% did not wear them at school. Among 476 children wearing spectacles, 25.0% had prescriptions that could not improve their visual acuity to better than 6/12. Therefore, 62.3% (591 of 948) of children needing spectacles did not benefit from appropriate correction. Children not owning and not wearing spectacles had better self-reported visual function but worse visual acuity at initial examination than children wearing spectacles and had a mean (SD) refractive error of -2.06 (1.15) diopter (D) and -2.78 (1.32) D, respectively. Girls (P