A new school-based program to provide eyeglasses: ChildSight

Pizzarello, Louis D.; Tilp, Meredith; Tiezzi, Lorraine; Vaughn, Roger; McCarthy, James

doi:10.1016/s1091-8531(98)90038-6

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“…Correcting refractive errors (RE) is highly cost-effective [9–11]. It is estimated that 12.8 million children worldwide are visually impaired from uRE [12].…”

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Effectiveness of a novel mobile health education intervention (Peek) on spectacle wear among children in India: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Morjaria

Bastawrous

Evans

et al. 2017

Trials

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BackgroundUncorrected refractive errors are the commonest cause of visual loss in children despite spectacle correction being highly cost-effective. Many affected children do not benefit from correction as a high proportion do not wear their spectacles. Reasons for non-wear include parental attitudes, overprescribing and children being teased/bullied. Most school programmes do not provide health education for affected children, their peers, teachers or parents.The Portable Eye Examination Kit (Peek) will be used in this study. Peek has applications for measuring visual acuity with software for data entry and sending automated messages to inform providers and parents. Peek also has an application which simulates the visual blur of uncorrected refractive error (SightSim).The hypothesis is that higher proportion of children with uncorrected refractive errors in schools allocated to the Peek educational package will wear their spectacles 3–4 months after they are dispensed, and a higher proportion of children identified with other eye conditions will access services, compared with schools receiving standard school screening.Methods/DesignCluster randomized, double-masked trial of children with and without uncorrected refractive errors or other eye conditions. Government schools in Hyderabad, India will be allocated to intervention (Peek) or comparator (standard programme) arms before vision screening. In the intervention arm Peek will be used for vision screening, SightSim images will be used in classroom teaching and will be taken home by children, and voice messages will be sent to parents of children requiring spectacles or referral.In both arms the same criteria for recruitment, prescribing and dispensing spectacles will be used. After 3–4 months children dispensed spectacles will be followed up to assess spectacle wear, and uptake of referrals will be ascertained.The cost of developing and delivering the Peek package will be assessed. The cost per child wearing their spectacles or accessing services will be compared.DiscussionEducating parents, teachers and children about refractive errors and the importance of wearing spectacles has the potential to increase spectacle wear amongst children. Innovative, potentially scalable mobile technology (Peek) will be used to screen, provide health education, track spectacle wear and adherence to follow-up amongst children referred.Trial registrationControlled-Trials.com, ISRCTN78134921. Registered on 29 June 2016.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13063-017-1888-5) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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“…Correcting refractive errors (RE) is highly cost-effective [9–11]. It is estimated that 12.8 million children worldwide are visually impaired from uRE [12].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Effectiveness of a novel mobile health education intervention (Peek) on spectacle wear among children in India: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Morjaria

Bastawrous

Evans

et al. 2017

Trials

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“…Thus, school personnel were not aware of when, or for how long during the school day a child should wear eyeglasses, or how a child's vision condition might impact his or her behavior and performance at school. This is consistent with school‐based vision care initiatives nationally: children are screened and may receive follow‐up eye care, but families and school personnel do not have the support, information, or resources to make compliance with treatment plans prescribed by an eye doctor a priority . Recognition of these limitations provided the basis for development and implementation of the Eyes that Thrive in School (ETT) program at ABCD HS centers during the 2011‐2012 school year.…”

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“…These programs made great strides in connecting children to comprehensive eye exams, but had limited success in monitoring or improving compliance with eyeglass wear. Typically, new school policies with ongoing support for treatment plans had not been included in the interventions …”

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Eyes That Thrive in School: A Program to Support Vision Treatment Plans at School

Johnson

Majzoub

Lyons

et al. 2016

Journal of School Health

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“…Students who failed a screening received an exam at school. Eightyeight percent of the children who required glasses received them at school within 1 hour of their vision exam (Pizzarello, Tilp, Tiezzi, Vaughn, & McCarthy, 1998). A similar program in England offers one stop where children can be screened, assessed, refracted, and provided with corrective lenses in a community setting (Karas et al, 1999).…”

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Vision Screening in Central Iowa

Gustafson

Kinne

Little

et al. 2001

The Journal of School Nursing

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This study assessed the vision-screening practices of all preschools and elementary schools during the spring of 2000 in the Heartland Area Education Agency (AEA) in central Iowa. Surveys were returned by 7% of the preschools and 56% of the elementary schools. Survey questions were drafted based on recommendations from the Iowa Vision Screening Program Guidelines, which were distributed to all Iowa school districts in 1997. Areas surveyed included vision-screening personnel, attainment of students' visual history, rescreening practices, referral and follow-up, and screening procedures. Survey results indicated that there is a need for improvement to standardize vision-screening procedures within Heartland AEA. Time and effort are invested in activities that are not recommended, and not enough effort is being put into recommended activities such as obtaining vision histories, rescreening to avoid overreferrals, and follow-up to make sure students receive required treatment.

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A new school-based program to provide eyeglasses: ChildSight

Cited by 37 publications

References 5 publications

Effectiveness of a novel mobile health education intervention (Peek) on spectacle wear among children in India: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Effectiveness of a novel mobile health education intervention (Peek) on spectacle wear among children in India: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Eyes That Thrive in School: A Program to Support Vision Treatment Plans at School

Vision Screening in Central Iowa

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