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- Title
Erros de refração como causas de baixa visual em erianças da rede de eseolas públieas da regional de Botueatu - SP.
- Authors
de Oliveira, Claudia Akemi Shiratori; Hisatomi, Kenia Scrocaro; Leite, Cristiano Pinheiro; Schellini, Silvana Artioli; Padovani, Carlos Roberto; Padovani, Carlos Roberto Pereira
- Abstract
Purpose: To evaluate the refractive errors as cause of visual impairment in school children from the Botucatu region. Methods: A sectional study was conducted evaluating preschool and elementary school students, according to gender, refractive error, visual acuity and treatment. Results: Four thousand six hundred and twenty-three (4,623) children were submitted to visual acuity evaluation and 8.1% of them were submitted to complete ocular examination. There were 63.2% hyperopic astigmatism, 15.7% myopic astigmatism, 12.5% astigmatism, 4.9% hyperopia and 3.7% myopia. Corrective lenses were prescribed for 48.7% of the evaluated children. Conclusion: The most frequent refractive error was hyperopic astigmatism and 50% of the children received treatment. The frequency of refractive errors was 3.9% of the studied population.
- Subjects
REFRACTIVE errors; VISION disorders in children; SCHOOL children; PUBLIC schools; MEDICAL research
- Publication
Arquivos Brasileiros de Oftalmologia, 2009, Vol 72, Issue 2, p194
- ISSN
0004-2749
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/S0004-27492009000200012