Distance, lighting, and parental beliefs: Understanding near work in epidemiologic studies of myopia

Optometry and Vision Science

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 355-362

  Saw, Seang Mei ^a,d   Nieto, F Javier ^b   Katz, Joanne ^b   Chew, Sek Jin ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c SINGAPORE EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Near work; Questionnaire; Reliability; Short sightedness; Validity

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGY; OPHTHALMOLOGY;

MYOPIA; SHORT-SIGHTEDNESS;

VISION;

ARTICLE; CHILD; DEMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MYOPIA; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SOCIOECONOMICS; VALIDATION PROCESS; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; HUMANS; LIGHTING; MYOPIA; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTING; POSTURE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFRACTION, OCULAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SINGAPORE;

EID: 0033151980     PISSN: 10405488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006324-199906000-00014     Document Type: Article

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