Prevalence and determinants of visual impairment amongst school-aged children in Southern Nigeria
| العنوان: | Prevalence and determinants of visual impairment amongst school-aged children in Southern Nigeria |
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| المؤلفون: | Kovin Naidoo, E. E. Ekanem, Bernadine N. Ekpenyong, Margaret Akpan, Antor O. Ndep |
| المصدر: | African Vision and Eye Health, Vol 79, Iss 1, Pp e1-e6 (2020) |
| بيانات النشر: | AOSIS, 2020. |
| سنة النشر: | 2020 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Refractive error, genetic structures, Visual impairment, school-aged children, prevalence, Glaucoma, visual impairment, 030501 epidemiology, Logistic regression, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, lcsh:Ophthalmology, medicine, Cross river, refractive error, School age child, business.industry, Odds ratio, medicine.disease, Confidence interval, lcsh:RE1-994, 030221 ophthalmology & optometry, medicine.symptom, 0305 other medical science, business, Demography |
| الوصف: | Background: Visual impairment among school children is relatively common and research provides evidence for integration of comprehensive eye care into school health programmes. Aim: To determine the prevalence and determinants of visual impairment in school-aged children in Southern Nigeria. Setting: School aged children from 10 public and private-owned schools in Cross River State, Southern Nigeria. Methods: This cross-sectional analytic study used a multistage random sampling technique to select 2418 school children aged 6–17 years. Comprehensive eye examinations were performed on the study. The logistic regression analysis with 95% confidence interval (CI) was used to test hypotheses. Results: Of the 2418 school children selected, 2110 (87%) were assessed. The prevalence ‘of uncorrected, presenting and best corrected visual acuity of 0.3 (20/40) or worse in the better eye’ was 7.3%, 7.2% and 0.19%, respectively. Errors of refraction were the cause of the impairment in 198 (70.7%; 63.5–76.0) eyes with reduced vision, followed by glaucoma suspects 38 (19.2%; 13.8–24.8), amblyopia (3.0%; 1.1–6.4) and corneal opacity 3 (1.5%; 0.3–4.3). The major and independent predictors of visual impairment were age (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] 1.97, 95% 1.45–2.67), high socio-economic status (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] 1.68, 95% 1.36–2.09) and female gender (AOR 1.35, 95% 1.00–1.88). Conclusion: The common causes of visual impairment in school-aged children are avoidable, and are mostly because of uncorrected refractive error, which could reflect inadequate refractive error services in the area. |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 2410-1516 2413-3183 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::4a2a0442d873bcb906a808bf1e20d98a https://avehjournal.org/index.php/aveh/article/view/534 |
| Rights: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....4a2a0442d873bcb906a808bf1e20d98a |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 24101516 24133183 |
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