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The screening of visual impairment among preschool children in an urban population in Malaysia; the Kuching pediatric eye study: a cross sectional study

BACKGROUND: To screen for visual impairment in Malaysian preschool children. METHODS: Visual screening was conducted in 400 preschool children aged 4 to 6 years. The screening involved two basic procedures; the distant visual acuity test using the Sheridan Gardiner chart and the depth perception tes...

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Autores principales: Premsenthil, Mallika, Manju, Rose, Thanaraj, Asokumaran, Syed Abdul Rahman, Syed Alwi, Aik Kah, Tan
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3637241/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23601160
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2415-13-16
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author Premsenthil, Mallika
Manju, Rose
Thanaraj, Asokumaran
Syed Abdul Rahman, Syed Alwi
Aik Kah, Tan
author_facet Premsenthil, Mallika
Manju, Rose
Thanaraj, Asokumaran
Syed Abdul Rahman, Syed Alwi
Aik Kah, Tan
author_sort Premsenthil, Mallika
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description BACKGROUND: To screen for visual impairment in Malaysian preschool children. METHODS: Visual screening was conducted in 400 preschool children aged 4 to 6 years. The screening involved two basic procedures; the distant visual acuity test using the Sheridan Gardiner chart and the depth perception test using the Langs stereoacuity test. Criteria for referral were a visual acuity of 6/12 or less in the better eye or a fail in the depth perception test. RESULTS: The prevalence of visual impairment was 5% (95% confidence interval [CI] = 3.3, 7.6). Of the 400 preschool children screened, 20 of them failed the distant visual acuity test or the stereopsis test. Refractive errors were the most common cause of visual impairment (95%, 95% CI = 76.2, 98.8); myopic astigmatism was the commonest type of refractive error (63.2%, 95% CI = 40.8, 80.9). CONCLUSION: The study is a small but important step in the effort to understand the problem of visual impairment among our preschool children. Our study showed that it is feasible to measure distant visual acuity and stereopsis in this age group.
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spelling pubmed-36372412013-04-27 The screening of visual impairment among preschool children in an urban population in Malaysia; the Kuching pediatric eye study: a cross sectional study Premsenthil, Mallika Manju, Rose Thanaraj, Asokumaran Syed Abdul Rahman, Syed Alwi Aik Kah, Tan BMC Ophthalmol Research Article BACKGROUND: To screen for visual impairment in Malaysian preschool children. METHODS: Visual screening was conducted in 400 preschool children aged 4 to 6 years. The screening involved two basic procedures; the distant visual acuity test using the Sheridan Gardiner chart and the depth perception test using the Langs stereoacuity test. Criteria for referral were a visual acuity of 6/12 or less in the better eye or a fail in the depth perception test. RESULTS: The prevalence of visual impairment was 5% (95% confidence interval [CI] = 3.3, 7.6). Of the 400 preschool children screened, 20 of them failed the distant visual acuity test or the stereopsis test. Refractive errors were the most common cause of visual impairment (95%, 95% CI = 76.2, 98.8); myopic astigmatism was the commonest type of refractive error (63.2%, 95% CI = 40.8, 80.9). CONCLUSION: The study is a small but important step in the effort to understand the problem of visual impairment among our preschool children. Our study showed that it is feasible to measure distant visual acuity and stereopsis in this age group. BioMed Central 2013-04-19 /pmc/articles/PMC3637241/ /pubmed/23601160 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2415-13-16 Text en Copyright © 2013 Premsenthil et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Premsenthil, Mallika
Manju, Rose
Thanaraj, Asokumaran
Syed Abdul Rahman, Syed Alwi
Aik Kah, Tan
The screening of visual impairment among preschool children in an urban population in Malaysia; the Kuching pediatric eye study: a cross sectional study
title The screening of visual impairment among preschool children in an urban population in Malaysia; the Kuching pediatric eye study: a cross sectional study
title_full The screening of visual impairment among preschool children in an urban population in Malaysia; the Kuching pediatric eye study: a cross sectional study
title_fullStr The screening of visual impairment among preschool children in an urban population in Malaysia; the Kuching pediatric eye study: a cross sectional study
title_full_unstemmed The screening of visual impairment among preschool children in an urban population in Malaysia; the Kuching pediatric eye study: a cross sectional study
title_short The screening of visual impairment among preschool children in an urban population in Malaysia; the Kuching pediatric eye study: a cross sectional study
title_sort screening of visual impairment among preschool children in an urban population in malaysia; the kuching pediatric eye study: a cross sectional study
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3637241/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23601160
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2415-13-16
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