Prevalence of Refractive Errors and Number Needed to Screen among Rural High School Children in Southern India: A Cross-sectional Study

Prevalence of Refractive Errors and Number Needed to Screen among Rural High School Children in Southern India: A Cross-sectional Study

Introduction: Avoidable blindness is mainly due to uncorrected refractive errors (URE). School Eye Screening (SES) can be used as an initiative to address this issue. Aim: To determine prevalence of URE and Number Needed to Screen (NNS) to find one child with low vision or blindness from URE am...

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Main Authors: Deepika Dorothy John, Padma Paul, Evon Selina Kujur, Sarada David, Smitha Jasper, Jayaprakash Muliyil
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: JCDR Research and Publications Private Limited 2017-08-01
Series:Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research
Subjects:
avoidable blindness
childhood blindness
low vision
myopia
school eye screening
Online Access:https://jcdr.net/articles/PDF/10476/25388_CE[Ra]_F(Sh)_PF!_(SY_MJ_PY)_PFA(SY_SS).pdf

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