Dr. Prateek Nishant

Dr. SONY SINHA, Dr. SHEKHAR CHOUDHARY

Abstract

Purpose: To evaluate the proportion of refractive errors among 10-24 year old patients, presenting to the Ophthalmology OPD of a tertiary hospital of Bihar.

Methods: A prospective study collected information about refractive errors, and association with age, gender, residence and education was evaluated using chi-square test.

Results: In 2739 eyes of 1482 young people, hypermetropia (32%) predominated over hypermetropic astigmatism (19%), myopic astigmatism (26%), myopia (22%) and mixed astigmatism (0.4%). Myopic errors were significantly more common in 10-14 yrs age-group (76%, p<0.001). Myopia predominated in females (39%) and in rural young people (53%), myopic astigmatism in the illiterate (45%) but hypermetropia in males (37%, p<0.001), urban (35%, p<0.001) and literate young people (31%, p<0.001). Conclusions: This study revealed a broad picture of proportion and predominance of different refractive errors and their associations with clinico-demographic profile of the patients.[advanced_iframe src="https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/embed.aspx?src=https://aiosproceedings.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/2021/E-Poster/FP1672.pptx" width="100%" height="608"]