School eye survey in rural population in UP, India

Abstract

The prevalence of refractive error in rural school is 6.81 %. Blepharitis is the commonest cause of ocular morbidity.

Pattern of ocular morbidity in Nigeria

“…Allergic conjunctivitis and ocular trauma were the most common causes of eye diseases in children in south western Nigeria [15] . Blepharoconjunctivitis followed by refractive error was the commonest cause of ocular morbidity amongst school children in a school eye survey in a rural population in India [16] .…”

“…Akinsola et al in a study of the pattern of eye diseases in adults aged 16 years and above found that 61.6% of the patients had refractive error, followed by cataract in 8% of the patients and conjunctivitis in 7.5% [6] . Edema et al also reported a similar pattern in Benin City with refractive error accounting for 31.7%, followed by conjunctivitis 27.7%, cataract 16.7% and glaucoma 8.7% [1] . Osahon et al reported on the pattern of eye diseases following an outreach in Edo and Delta states of Nigeria with uncorrected refractive error being the commonest eye diseases followed by cataract [7] , glaucoma and conjunctivitis.…”

Prevalence of Refractive Error and Other Ocular Morbidities and Follow - Up Study on Compliance to Spectacles Use Among School Going Children Aged 9 - 16 Years in Selected Village of Hassan

“…The global financial cost of blindness with an onset during childhood has been estimated to be between US $6000-$27,000 million. 2 It is estimated that there are 1.4 million blind children in the world, two-third of whom live in the developing countries and of all the blind children 2,70,000 live in India. 3 Refractive error is one of the major avoidable (Preventable and curable) causes of blindness next only to cataract.…”

Screening of Vision and Hearing in Primary School Children

“…[5] The WHO estimated that in 2004, 275 million people were handicapped because of compromised hearing and 80% of these people lived in low- and middle-income countries. [6] Recently published results show that between 2 and 8% people have visual problems[78910] and around 6% have hearing disabilities in countries with limited public health-care systems. [1112]…”