Spectacle acceptance among secondary school students in rural China: The Xichang Pediatric Refractive Error Study (X-PRES) - Report 5

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2895-2902

  Li, Liping ^a   Song, Yue ^b   Liu, Xiaojian ^a   Lu, Bei ^b   Choi, Kai ^c   Lam, Dennis S C ^b,c   Zhang, Mingzhi ^b   Zheng, Mingwei ^b   Wang, Yunfei ^b   Sharma, Abhishek ^b,d   Congdon, Nathan ^b,c  

^a SHANTOU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^b SHANTOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHINA; FAMILY; FEAR; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARENTAL ATTITUDE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURCHASING; REFRACTION ERROR; RURAL POPULATION; SATISFACTION; SPECTACLES; VISION; VISION TEST; VISUAL ACUITY; ASIAN; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; MALE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; SCHOOL; STUDENT; VISUAL DISORDER;

ADOLESCENT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHINA; EYEGLASSES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; RURAL POPULATION; SCHOOLS; STUDENTS; VISION DISORDERS;

EID: 48249109883     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.07-1531     Document Type: Article

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