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VISUAL DISORDERS IN 7‐YEAR‐OLD CHILDREN WITH AND WITHOUT PREVIOUS VISION SCREENING
Author(s) -
KÖHLER LENNART,
STIGMAR GÖRAN
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1978.tb16337.x
Subject(s) - medicine , pediatrics , medical screening , el niño , family medicine
. An analysis of visual defects among 310 children referred from a vision screening of 2178 7‐year‐old children revealed a 50% frequency of significant eye defects among the referrals (7% of screened children). Of the screened children, one group (1530 children) had previous visual screening three years earlier. The other group (648 children) had no previous vision screening until the age of seven. A comparison between the two groups showed that the risk of finding a new significant eye disorder in a school entrant was more than 6 times greater for a child who was not examined in his preschool years, and the risk of finding an ambiyopic child was more than 10 times greater. The results do indicate the need for continuation of the present vision screening program of pre‐school children.