Prevalence of amblyopia and refractive errors in an unscreened population of children

Optometry and Vision Science

Volumn 89, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Polling, Jan Roelof ^a,b   Loudon, Sjoukje E ^a   Klaver, Caroline C W ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

amblyopia; refractive error; vision screening; visual acuity in children

Indexed keywords

AMBLYOPIA; AUTOREFRACTION; CAUCASIANS; MEDICAL RECORD; REFRACTIVE ERROR; VISION SCREENING; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL CONDITION; VISUAL LOSS;

OPHTHALMOLOGY; VISION;

ERRORS;

AMBLYOPIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EYE REFRACTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; POLAND; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; REFRACTION ERROR; RURAL POPULATION; VISION TEST; VISUAL ACUITY;

AMBLYOPIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; POLAND; PREVALENCE; REFRACTION, OCULAR; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; RURAL POPULATION; VISION SCREENING; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84869867212     PISSN: 10405488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OPX.0b013e31826ae047     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. Kvarnstrom G, Jakobsson P, Lennerstrand G. Visual screening of Swedish children: an ophthalmological evaluation. Acta Ophthalmol Scand 2001;79:240-4. (Pubitemid 32577306)
2. Ohlsson J, Sjostrand J. Preschool vision screening: is it worthwhile? In: Lorenz B, Moore A, eds. Pediatric Ophthalmology, Neuro- Ophthalmology, Genetics. Berlin, Germany: Springer Verlag; 2006: chap 2.
3. Nilsson J. The burden of amblyopia and strabismus: justification of treatment and screening revisited. Arch Ophthalmol 2008;126: 143-5; author reply 145-6.
4. ÓDonoghue L, McClelland JF, Logan NS, Rudnicka AR, Owen CG, Saunders KJ. Refractive error and visual impairment in school children in Northern Ireland. Br J Ophthalmol 2010;94: 1155-9.
5. Ohlsson J, Villarreal G, Sjostrom A, Cavazos H, Abrahamsson M, Sjostrand J. Visual acuity, amblyopia, and ocular pathology in 12- to 13-year-old children in Northern Mexico. J AAPOS 2003;7: 47-53. (Pubitemid 37443354)
6. Czepita D, Mojsa A, Zejmo M. Prevalence of myopia and hyperopia among urban and rural schoolchildren in Poland. Ann Acad Med Stetin 2008;54:17-21.
7. Carlton J, Karnon J, Czoski-Murray C, Smith KJ, Marr J. The clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of screening programmes for amblyopia and strabismus in children up to the age of 4-5 years: a systematic review and economic evaluation. Health Technol Assess 2008;12:iii, xi-194.
8. Villarreal GM, Ohlsson J, Cavazos H, AbrahamssonM, Mohamed JH. Prevalence of myopia among 12- to 13-year-old schoolchildren in northern Mexico. Optom Vis Sci 2003;80:369-73. (Pubitemid 36578734)
9. Taylor HR, Xie J, Fox S, Dunn RA, Arnold AL, Keeffe JE. The prevalence and causes of vision loss in Indigenous Australians: the National Indigenous Eye Health Survey. Med J Aust 2010;192: 312-8.
10. Pan Y, Tarczy-Hornoch K, Cotter SA, Wen G, Borchert MS, Azen SP, Varma R. Visual acuity norms in pre-school children: the Multi- Ethnic Pediatric Eye Disease Study. Optom Vis Sci 2009;86: 607-12.
11. The Multi-Ethnic Pediatric Eye Disease Study Group. Prevalence of myopia and hyperopia in 6- to 72-month-old African American and Hispanic children. Ophthalmology 2010;117:140-7.
12. Goh PP, Abqariyah Y, Pokharel GP, Ellwein LB. Refractive error and visual impairment in school-age children in Gombak District, Malaysia. Ophthalmology 2005;112:678-85. (Pubitemid 41108871)
13. Logan NS, Shah P, Rudnicka AR, Gilmartin B, Owen CG. Childhood ethnic differences in ametropia and ocular biometry: the Aston Eye Study. Ophthalmic Physiol Opt 2011;31:550-8.
14. Matsumura H, Hirai H. Prevalence of myopia and refractive changes in students from 3 to 17 years of age. Surv Ophthalmol 1999; 44(suppl 1):S109-15.
15. Morgan IG, Rose KA, Ellwein LB. Is emmetropia the natural endpoint for human refractive development? An analysis of populationbased data from the refractive error study in children (RESC). Acta Ophthalmol 2010;88:877-84.
16. Vitale S, Sperduto RD, Ferris FL, III. Increased prevalence of myopia in the United States between 1971-1972 and 1999-2004. Arch Ophthalmol 2009;127:1632-9.
17. Ojaimi E, Rose KA, Morgan IG, Smith W, Martin FJ, Kifley A, Robaei D, Mitchell P. Distribution of ocular biometric parameters and refraction in a population-based study of Australian children. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2005;46:2748-54. (Pubitemid 43086694)
18. Ip JM, Huynh SC, Robaei D, Kifley A, Rose KA, Morgan IG, Wang JJ, Mitchell P. Ethnic differences in refraction and ocular biometry in a population-based sample of 11-15-year-old Australian children. Eye 2008;22:649-56. (Pubitemid 351712360)
19. Czepita D, Zejmo M, Mojsa A. Prevalence of myopia and hyperopia in a population of Polish schoolchildren. Ophthalmic Physiol Opt 2007;27:60-5. (Pubitemid 46072517)
20. Groenewoud JH, Tjiam AM, Lantau VK, Hoogeveen WC, de Faber JT, Juttmann RE, de Koning HJ, Simonsz HJ. Rotterdam AMblyopia screening effectiveness study: detection and causes of amblyopia in a large birth cohort. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2010;51:3476-84.
21. Ohlsson J. Defining amblyopia: the need for a joint classification. Strabismus 2005;13:15-20. (Pubitemid 41656861)
22. Allison CL. Proportion of refractive errors in a Polish immigrant population in Chicago. Optom Vis Sci 2010;87:588-92.
23. Eibschitz-Tsimhoni M, Friedman T, Naor J, Eibschitz N, Friedman Z. Early screening for amblyogenic risk factors lowers the prevalence and severity of amblyopia. J AAPOS 2000;4:194-9.
24. Ohlsson J, Villarreal G, Sjostrom A, Abrahamsson M, Sjostrand J. Screening for amblyopia and strabismus with the Lang II stereo card. Acta Ophthalmol Scand 2002;80:163-6. (Pubitemid 34406848)
25. Snowdon SK, Stewart-Brown SL. Preschool vision screening. Health Technol Assess 1997;1:1-83.
26. Strauss RW, Ehrt O. Detection of amlyogenic risk factors with the vision screener S 04 [in German]. Klin Monbl Augenheilkd 2010; 227:798-803.
27. Powell C, Hatt SR. Vision screening for amblyopia in childhood. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2009:CD005020.
28. Konig HH, Barry JC. Economic evaluation of different methods of screening for amblyopia in kindergarten. Pediatrics 2002;109:e59.
29. Konig HH, Barry JC. Cost-utility analysis of orthoptic screening in kindergarten: a Markov model based on data from Germany. Pediatrics 2004;113:95-108.
30. Lagreze WA. Vision screening in preschool children: do the data support universal screening? Dtsch Arztebl Int 2010;107:495-499.
31. Matta NS, Singman EL, Silbert DI. Performance of the Plusoptix vision screener for the detection of amblyopia risk factors in children. J AAPOS 2008;12:490-2.
32. ÓDonoghue L, Rudnicka AR, McClelland JF, Logan NS, Saunders KJ. Visual acuity measures do not reliably detect childhood refractive errorVan epidemiological study. PLoS One 2012;7:e34441.
33. Hart LG, Larson EH, Lishner DM. Rural definitions for health policy and research. Am J Public Health 2005;95:1149-55. (Pubitemid 40880862)
34. Camparini M, Cassinari P, Ferrigno L, Macaluso C. ETDRS-fast: implementing psychophysical adaptive methods to standardized visual acuity measurement with ETDRS charts. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2001;42:1226-31. (Pubitemid 32381961)
35. Ojaimi E, Rose KA, Smith W, Morgan IG, Martin FJ, Mitchell P. Methods for a population-based study of myopia and other eye conditions in school children: the Sydney Myopia Study. Ophthalmic Epidemiol 2005;12:59-69. (Pubitemid 41702836)
36. ÓDonoghue L, Saunders KJ, McClelland JF, Logan NS, Rudnicka AR, Gilmartin B, Owen CG. Sampling and measurement methods for a study of childhood refractive error in a UK population. Br J Ophthalmol 2010;94:1150-4.
37. Ohlsson J, Villarreal G, Sjostrom A, Abrahamsson M, Sjostrand J. Visual acuity, residual amblyopia and ocular pathology in a screened population of 12-13-year-old children in Sweden. Acta Ophthalmol Scand 2001;79:589-95. (Pubitemid 33134116)
38. Lu Q, Zheng Y, Sun B, Cui T, Congdon N, Hu A, Chen J, Shi J. A population-based study of visual impairment among pre-school children in Beijing: the Beijing study of visual impairment in children. Am J Ophthalmol 2009;147:1075-81.
39. Wong TY, Foster PJ, Hee J, Ng TP, Tielsch JM, Chew SJ, Johnson GJ, Seah SK. Prevalence and risk factors for refractive errors in adult Chinese in Singapore. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2000;41:2486-94. (Pubitemid 30624374)
40. Low W, Dirani M, Gazzard G, Chan YH, Zhou HJ, Selvaraj P, Au Eong KG, Young TL, Mitchell P, Wong TY, Saw SM. Family history, near work, outdoor activity, and myopia in Singapore Chinese preschool children. Br J Ophthalmol 2010;94:1012-6.
41. Wildsoet CF. Active emmetropizationVevidence for its existence and ramifications for clinical practice. Ophthalmol Physiol Opt 1997;17:279-90. (Pubitemid 27296344)
42. Atkinson J, Anker S, Bobier W, Braddick O, Durden K, Nardini M, Watson P. Normal emmetropization in infants with spectacle correction for hyperopia. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2000;41: 3726-31.