Prevalence of refractive errors in students in Northeastern Brazil

Garcia, Carlos Alexandre de Amorim; Oréfice, Fernando; Nobre, Gabrielle Fernandes Dutra; Souza, Dilene de Brito; Rocha, Marta Liliane Ramalho; Vianna, Raul Navarro Garrido

doi:10.1590/s0004-27492005000300009

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“…In other cases, Germany, the USA, the UK, including Northern Ireland, Greece, Spain, Chile, Bulgaria, Thailand, Brazil, Jordan, Indonesia, Argentina, Portugal, in Moravia, now part of the Czech Republic, Turkey, the Russian Federation, Serbia, Romania and Tunisia, there is some information which enables them to be classified as locations with a low prevalence of myopia, although the evidence is not always strong, due to often severe limitations in study methodology. Israel provides an important set of data, because while the prevalence of myopia in the general population is in the low range, the prevalence is very high in boys, but not girls, studying in Orthodox and ultra‐Orthodox schools with very heavy educational loads …”

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Myopia and international educational performance

Morgan

Rose

2013

Ophthalmic Physiologic Optic

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These results show that it is possible to achieve high educational outcomes without extensive engagement in after-school tutorials, and that the combination of high educational outcomes with extensive use of tutorials is associated with high prevalence rates of myopia. We suggest that extensive use of after-school tutorials may be a marker of educational environments which impose high educational loads. Further quantification of educational loads to include after- school educational activities, such as homework, tutorials and other after-school classes, as well as formal school classes, is desirable. Policy initiatives to decrease these loads may contribute to the prevention of myopia, perhaps, at least in part, by enabling children to spend more time outdoors.

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Myopia and international educational performance

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Rose

2013

Ophthalmic Physiologic Optic

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“…Essa seqüência de prevalência de erros refracionais se repete em diversos trabalhos (7)(8)13,17) , sendo que em alguns a miopia se mostra mais prevalente que o astigmatismo isolado (6,14) . Garcia et al (17) mostraram que 79,15% apresentavam hipermetropia com ou sem associação com astigmatismo, valor alto quando comparado ao presente estudo, que encontrou 45,45% de prevalência. Contudo, Schimiti et al (14) encontraram um valor mais próximo ao encontrado em Passo Fundo, de 46,2%.…”

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Prevalência de erros refrativos em escolares da primeira série do ensino fundamental da região Nordeste do Rio Grande do Sul

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“…By contrast, the prevalence of myopia in 7-years-old children in Singapore is 28% (4) . One Brazilian study presented different results, but it was not possible to compare, as the protocols in our study are different from their study (5) . One limitation of this study was the use of SER to classify myopia, which can result in over-estimation of prevalence in populations with significant levels of astigmatism.…”

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