Pattern of Refractive Errors in Teenage School Students Visiting A Tertiary Care Hospital In Manipur
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Dental and Medical Sciences (IOSR-JDMS) - Year 2019, Vol 18, Issue 1
Abstract
Myopia is the commonest refractive error followedby hypermetropia. Many conservative and surgical modalitiesare available for correcting the refractive errors, each withvarying efficacy and safety. This study was planned to find outthe pattern of refractive errors and the extent of correctionpossible with conservative methods.A hospital based cross sectional studywas done in the months of March, April and May 2018, among teenagepatients attending the Out-Patient Department(OPD) of tertiary hospital in Imphal,Manipur, India. A total of 980 teenage patients attending the OphthalmologyOPD who were having refractive error were included in the study. Around 42.85% of the participants complained of decreasedvision while 35.71% had recurrent bouts of headache as thepresenting problem. Most of the patients had an uncorrectedfar vision between 6/6 and 6/12.Around 98.97% of the participants had a corrected visual acuity of6/6 in both eyes, and around 1.02% had a corrected acuity between6/6 and 6/12 in both eyes. In ourstudy, sub-optimal correction of visual acuity has been reportedonly in less than 1% of the participants, and therefore theprobability of progression of the problem is minimised in a vastmajority of the patients.
Authors and Affiliations
Thangjam Amit Singh, Varsha Uday K, Tekcham Sangini Devi, Lipokyanger . , Lalnuntluanga Ralte
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