Prof.Kavita R Bhatnagar

Abstract

Blindness and vision impairment among children are significant public health issues in India. A cross sectional study of randomly selected schools in western India. Total 2370 students, 1294 urban, 1076 rural in 6-16 year’s age group were screened for amblyopia, refractive errors and ocular comorbidities. The prevalence of uncorrected refractive error was 17.42% and of Myopia, Hypermetropia and Astigmatism was 12.36%, 0.59%, 4.47% respectively. Refractive error was more in urban than rural area. Amblyopia was present in 1.39%. Anisometropia, 72.72% and hyperopia 51.51%, were important amblyogenic risk factors. Unilateral amblyopia, 29/33 was more than bilateral amblyopia, 4/33. (P<0.0001.) Moderate amblyopia 25/33 was more than severe amblyopia 8/33 (P<0.004). Vision screening of school children in developing countries would be very useful in early detection of correctable causes of poor vision and in preventing long term visual complications.[advanced_iframe src="https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/embed.aspx?src=https://aiosproceedings.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/2021/E-Poster/FP987.pptx" width="100%" height="608"]