Attitudes of students, parents, and teachers toward glasses use in rural China

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 128, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 759-765

  Li, Liping ^a   Lam, Jasmine ^b   Lu, Yaogui ^a   Ye, Yanru ^a   Lam, Dennis S C ^b   Gao, Yang ^b   Sharma, Abhishek ^d   Zhang, Mingzhi ^a   Griffiths, Sian ^b   Congdon, Nathan ^a,b,c  

^a SHANTOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINA; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MYOPIA; PARENTAL ATTITUDE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; SPECTACLES; STUDENT ATTITUDE; TEACHER; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHINA; EYEGLASSES; FACULTY; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MYOPIA; PARENTS; RURAL POPULATION; STUDENTS; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS;

EID: 77953625065     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 15383601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archophthalmol.2010.73     Document Type: Article

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