Predictors of early acceptance of free spectacles provided to junior high school students in China

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 128, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1328-1334

  Keay, Lisa ^a,b   Zeng, Yangfa ^c   Munoz, Beatriz ^a   He, Mingguang ^c,d   Friedman, David S ^a,d  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; CHINA; FATHER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT; HUMAN; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MOTHER; OCCUPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISM; PUPIL; REFRACTION ERROR; SCHOOL CHILD; SELF REPORT; SPECTACLES; VISUAL ACUITY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STUDENT; URBAN POPULATION; UTILIZATION; VISION TEST;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHINA; EYEGLASSES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; STUDENTS; URBAN POPULATION; VISION SCREENING;

EID: 77957988514     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 15383601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archophthalmol.2010.215     Document Type: Article

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