Prevalence and Pattern of Refractive Error in 5-15 years age group in Bundelkhand
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Dental and Medical Sciences (IOSR-JDMS) - Year 2018, Vol 17, Issue 10
Abstract
Refractive error is one of the leading causes of visual disability in children which can affect the performance and impare the quality of life and can lead to childhood blindness. A cross sectional study was conducted among children between 5 to15 years of age who were attending OPD ,Department of Ophthalmology, Maharani Laxmi Bai Medical College, Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, India over a period of 6 months from March 2018 to August 2018 to find out the prevalence and pattern of refractive error among them. A total of 1357 children were attending the OPD All children underwent the thorough examinations out of this 252 children were diagnosed to have refractive error. Among this 156 were males and 96 were females. Prevalence of refractive error is 18.6% of children in 5-15 year age group. It is more prevalent in females (20.8%) than males (17.4%) . This study shows that myopia, hypermetropia, and type of astigmatism have different distribution in different age group like Hypermetropia is more common in 5-10 year age group (66%) whereas myopia is more prevalent in 11-15 year age group (67.7%).
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Dr. Jitendra Kumar, Dr. Punam Tiwari
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