To observe the proportion of amblyopia among children presenting in a rural hospital in Central India

Daigavane, Sachin; Prasad, Madhumita

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“…Table 6 shows the association of amblyopia with age group and it was found that prevalence of amblyopia was higher in the age group 11-15 years (3.1%) but it was not statistically significantly (p>0.05). In our study, anisometropic amblyopia (34%) was the most common type followed by strabismus (29.5%) and this was similar to the findings by Daigavane S, et al 16 (53.8% and 23%). Gupta D, et al 1 also reported anisometropic amblyopia as the most common type (72%).…”

Section: Association Of Amblyopia With Agesupporting

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Assessment of amblyopia among school going children aged 6-15 years in a city of West Bengal, India: A cross-sectional study

Chowdhury¹,

Banerjee²,

Ray³

et al. 2023

Sri Lanka J Child Health

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Introduction: Amblyopia is the leading cause of preventable monocular vision loss in children. Refractive error is a common cause of amblyopia, other causes being anisometropia, ocular media opacities, strabismus or a combination of factors. Since amblyopia is avoidable and treatable, early screening and timely treatment are very important.Objectives: To assess the prevalence and types of amblyopia among 6-15 years old school going children in urban West Bengal, India.Method: A cross sectional study was conducted for one year among 3882 rural school children aged 6-15 years. A full ophthalmic examination, including refraction, fundoscopy and slit lamp examination was done in children having vision <6/12 without any organic lesion.Results: Amblyopia was found in 112 (2.9%) children. Common causes of amblyopia observed were anisometropia (33.9%), strabismus (29.5%), meridional amblyopia (14.3%) and combined (13.4%). Amblyopia was higher in males (3.2% vs 2.5%) and in the 11-15-year age group (3.1% vs 2.6%), though it was not statistically significant.Conclusions: Prevalence of amblyopia was 2.9% in our study population and anisometropia was the commonest (33.9%) type.

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Section: Association Of Amblyopia With Agesupporting

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Assessment of amblyopia among school going children aged 6-15 years in a city of West Bengal, India: A cross-sectional study

Chowdhury¹,

Banerjee²,

Ray³

et al. 2023

Sri Lanka J Child Health

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“…[22][23][24] Daigavane et al in their study on Indian population found 13 children to have amblyopia 53% were refractive and 23% were strabismic. 25 In a study by Mittal et al, the numbers were 60.71% and 39.29%, respectively. 13 In this study, 69 out of 946 children with refractive error (7.3%) children were diagnosed with squint.…”

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Changing trend in prevalence of refractive errors: a hospital-based study

Rajput

Shetty

2020

Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background: Refractive errors are the second most common reason of blindness in India after cataract. It accounts for 33.3% of cases of childhood blindness. The purpose of this study was to estimate the prevalence of refractive error and related visual impairment in children visiting a tertiary care eye center in Southern India.Methods: This was hospital-based descriptive study. Children <15 years of age with significant refractive error were included in the study. They were examined for visual acuity measurements, ocular motility evaluation, retinoscopy and autorefraction under cycloplegia, and examination of the anterior segment and fundus. Significant refractive error was defined as myopia ≥-0.75D, hypermetropia >+2D and astigmatism >0.75D. Descriptive statistics with frequency, mean±Standard deviation were computed for better and the worse eye. Statistical tests were applied between the worse and better eye using Chi square test.Results: A total of 946 children were screened. The mean age was 10.5±6.2 years (3-15 years) with 503 (53.2%) males and 443 (46.8%) females. With respect to vision in the worse eye; 54.01% (n=511) had moderately subnormal vision. One hundred and twenty- two children (23.4%) of <10 years, and 351 (67.4%) of ≥10 years group had myopia, with statistically significant difference (p<0.001). The reverse pattern was seen with respect to hypermetropia and astigmatism. Prevalence of amblyopia was found to be 8.6%.Conclusions: Though myopia is more prevalent among general population, prevalence of astigmatism is higher among children attending an eye hospital and uncorrected astigmatism is the most significant amblyogenic factor in refractive amblyopia.

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Amblyopia: Effectiveness of visual screening for early detection in a comparative study between urban and rural school children

Kapadia,

Sneha,

Jariwala

2023

Kerala Journal of Ophthalmology

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Background: Amblyopia an important health problem among young children causing lifelong visual impairment if not treated at correct age. Timely screening of children for amblyopia and its appropriate treatment can prevent the consequences of the problem in their adulthood. Materials and Methods: This study carried out a visual screening of 1234 school children in the age group of 3–12 years of urban and rural schools. All children having vision < 6/6, were called for detailed ophthalmic evaluation at tertiary care Government Hospital. Children who met the inclusion criteria and their best-corrected visual acuity found to be <6/6 on Snellen’s chart even after refractive check-up, were assessed for different amblyopia tests to categorize amblyopia into various types and severity. Results: The prevalence of amblyopia in study group was 2.41% (8) in rural and 1.43% (13) in urban schools of 78 children from urban and 37 children from rural referred for detailed Ophthalmic evaluation which includes dropout rate of 24.35% and 35.13% from urban and rural, respectively. The prevalence of isoametropic amblyopia (38.46%) was maximum in urban whereas in rural it was anisometropic amblyopia (37.5%). Among the strabismic amblyopia, most frequent pattern was exotropia in both the groups, moderate degree amblyopia was more in urban and severe degree in rural. Amblyopia was bilateral in most of urban (61.53%) whereas unilateral in most of rural (75%) children. Hypermetropic refractive error was more prevalent in both urban and rural. Conclusion: The prevalence of amblyopia was found more in rural children. The study highlighted differences in the severity of amblyopia, its types, and common refractive errors in both the groups. On the whole, there was no statistically significant difference in all parameters among both the groups.

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To observe the proportion of amblyopia among children presenting in a rural hospital in Central India

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Assessment of amblyopia among school going children aged 6-15 years in a city of West Bengal, India: A cross-sectional study

Assessment of amblyopia among school going children aged 6-15 years in a city of West Bengal, India: A cross-sectional study

Changing trend in prevalence of refractive errors: a hospital-based study

Amblyopia: Effectiveness of visual screening for early detection in a comparative study between urban and rural school children

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