vision screening

PURPOSE: To compare 11 preschool vision screening tests administered by licensed eye care professionals (LEPs; optometrists and pediatric ophthalmologists). DESIGN: Multicenter, cross-sectional study...

..Any information on eye diseases in schoolchildren in Nepal is rare and sketchy. A programme to provide basic eye screening to schoolchildren with an aim to provide services as well as gather information on ocular morbidity has been started...

The rationale for preschool vision screening programmes has recently been questioned. Evidence about the effects of early treatment is needed, but it is not known how early the target conditions can reliably be detected...

..Barriers to spectacle use were investigated using questionnaires and focus group discussions...

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To design and test a cost-efficient, community-based vision screening program for a population of Native American preschool children in which there is a high prevalence of astigmatism.

..Strategies to increase follow-up compliance and recommendations for overcoming barriers to care were also identified...

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..Early childhood hypermetropia is an important risk factor for the development of amblyopia and esotropia. Understanding the natural history of these complications aids in management decisions...

This study compares different vision screening batteries and documents the failure rates of different vision tests in children who receive periodic vision screenings.

..The results of the survey were analyzed quantitatively regarding geographic, political, and socioeconomic aspects, yielding data for the exchange of experience in optimizing existing programs and developing new programs...

..Data collected within a birth cohort study were used to examine visual outcomes at 7(1/2) years in children who did or did not receive preschool vision screening.

..6 (20/32); C) same as A, plus cover tests and examination of eye motility and head posture; D) same as C, but pass threshold > or =0.6 (20/32); and E) refractive screening without cycloplegia using the Nikon Retinomax autorefractor...

..These results indicate that automated TCT assessment is an effective and clinically viable technique for detecting STDR, particularly diabetic maculopathy, before visual loss...

..CONCLUSIONS: Based on the best available data, the net benefit of PS in 3 to 4 year old preschool children is greater than VAS in children 7 to 8 years of age, PS in toddlers, and VAS in children 3 to 4 years of age...

To determine the rate of preschool vision screening in family practice. To evaluate attitudes and beliefs about the importance of, and barriers to, preschool vision screening.

..To assess the effectiveness of early treatment for amblyopia in children...

..To assess the suitability of Brückner test as a screening test to detect significant refractive errors in children...

..To determine the rate of amblyopia in native Jewish Israelis compared with those who immigrated from the former Soviet Union (U.S.S.R.) after they were 10 years of age...

..We aimed to investigate the risk, causes, and outcomes of visual impairment attributable to loss of vision in the non-amblyopic eye...

..50 D. Post-hoc analysis of the record cards seeking the reason for further assessment indicates that referrals appear to have been based upon clinical intuition rather than on a set number of borderline or unsatisfactory results...

Photoscreening programs for preschool vision screening have been promoted by Lions Clubs International Foundation (LCIF) via their 17 Core Four grant project awards since 1999...

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PURPOSE: Nova Scotia has a vision screening program which assesses children aged 4[1\2] to 5[1\2] years. However, its use in younger children proved impossible...

..To evaluate the efficacy of a mass screening program for amblyopia and amblyogenic risk factors in infants...

..This preschool vision screening program provides for one vision screening for children aged two and three at no cost to the family or the ..

We tested the validity of vision screening in schools in 7 regions of Oman in 2003.Two researchers tested 1719 randomly selected students in 4 school grades using the Snellen E acuity test...

..public health service of the local health authorities enables us to present the collected results of a vision screening survey of all children starting primary school in 1998 in the Federal State of Saarland...

..A category 3 CPT code (0065T) can be used for this valid, public health technique: Amblyopia Detection By Camera (ADBC)...

..Effective treatment depends on early detection, and a broad consensus of professional opinion supports vision screening of infants and young children...

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..Various professional organizations, including the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), advise preschool vision screening to detect and correct vision problems before school entry...

To test the efficacy of treatment for unilateral visual loss detected by preschool vision screening and the extent to which effectiveness varies with initial severity.

..is known about the pattern and variation of care offered to preschool-aged children who have had an abnormal vision screening test...

..To estimate the prevalence of ocular morbidity among children of rural southern India before developing a service delivery model for community-based pediatric eye care...

PURPOSE: To compare the usefulness of traditional vision screening and photoscreening of 3- and 4-year-old children in the pediatrician's office...

..The influence of cycloplegia was of interest...

..This study describes the various ophthalmological conditions detected in the Swedish visual screening program for children...

..To demonstrate the feasibility of developing a screening tool based on corneal topography to detect previous myopic laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK)...

..To assess the prevalence of visual impairment and ocular abnormalities among schoolchildren in Chiang Mai...

AIM: To report on a new model of preschool vision screening that was performed in metropolitan Seoul and to investigate the distribution of various ocular disorders in this metropolitan preschool population...

..To describe and analyze low visual acuity (VA) prevalence among school children...

..The CISS is the primary outcome measure for a pilot study evaluating two different treatments for convergence insufficiency (CI)...

..With conventional vision screening, the patient must be able to provide monocular visual acuity cooperation, whereas objective screening for ..

..The results suggest that two-choice procedures increase testability of young preschoolers...

..Children with serious eye injuries often present to the primary care physician. Nystagmus and many systemic conditions are associated with specific eye findings...

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..To identify children with isoametropic amblyopia due to moderate to high hyperopia and evaluate associated findings and visual acuity outcome...

..Successful patching regimens can last as little as 1 h or 2 h a day, and successful atropine regimens as little as one drop twice a week. Intense and extended regimens might not be needed in initial therapy...

..6% and 2.8% respectively. A population-based survey of BLB and BLLV in the elderly, yearly vision examinations and an ophthalmic education programme are recommended...

To assess the learning curve, testability, and reliability of vision screening modalities administered by pediatric health extenders.

PURPOSE: To compare the sensitivity of 11 preschool vision screening tests administered by licensed eye care professionals for the detection of the 4 Vision in Preschoolers (VIP)-targeted vision disorders when specificity is 94%...

Monocular autorefraction is a newly available technology for vision screening that has been advocated to test young children...

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..CONCLUSION: The Lang II stereotest, when used alone, has very limited value as a screening test of binocular dysfunction...

b>Vision screening was performed on 268 pre-school children: 170 from a private pre-school, 33 from a Caribbean-American parochial pre-school and 65 pre-school children from a clinic serving indigent Spanish farm-workers...

..The prevalence of significant refractive errors and other eye diseases was measured in 2511 secondary school students aged 11-27 years in Mwanza City, Tanzania. Risk factors for myopia were explored...

..To measure grating visual acuity in premature infants and compare it with that in full-term infants...

The Second Cambridge Population Infant Vision Screening Programme using the VPR-1 videorefractor without cycloplegia was undertaken in order to identify those infants with refractive errors who were potentially amblyogenic or ..

..Photoscreening identifies anisometropic children in a manner that is not biased by acuity, and allows an opportunity to evaluate how patient age influences the prevalence and depth of amblyopia...

..CONCLUSION: A small number of older type 2 diabetic patients end up with visual impairment due to unsuccessful photocoagulation of macular oedema...

..Because specificity is lower, all children showing suppression with the PST in a screening situation should have further examination by the health care worker before being referred to the ophthalmologist...

..To elaborate and to validate a computerized test for visual acuity screening of school-age children...

..CONCLUSIONS: The visual status in the Mexican 12- to 13-year-old children tested was good. The prevalence of amblyopia was similar to that in other unscreened populations...

..To correlate visual acuity measured with the Optec 800 to the gold-standard Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study (ETDRS) chart...

..In conclusions, the prevalence of strabismus was different between 1.5- and 3-year-old children. The vision-screening program in Japan functions to detect strabismus and amblyopia...

..To evaluate the effectiveness of the Lang II stereo card as a screening test for amblyopia and/or strabismus...

..To determine the testability of Retinomax and IOLMaster ocular biometry in preschool children...

..Photoscreening and remote autorefraction showed promise in the urban "Vision in PreSchoolers Study." We transported a comparative screening with confirmation program to a remote part of interior Alaska...

..This article identifies the leading causes of visual impairment, target populations, and screening techniques for primary care. The author also provides key counseling information and valuable resources for clinicians and patients...

..The prevalence of blindness in children in the camps was estimated as 1.4 per 1000 children. The leading causes of blindness were found to be corneal opacities (40.0%), mainly due to vitamin A deficiency, followed by amblyopia (32.5%)...

..06, P < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: The prevention of amblyopia and strabismus in children should begin at the infant period, and the cases with moderate and severe ametropia should wear eye glasses as early as possible...

..The Project "Vision through the hands" was performed by the Altino Ventura Foundation, with the purpose of investigating the present child situation with multiple disabilities in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil...

..We report the prevalence of all grades of retinopathy at entry into a systematic primary care-based diabetic eye screening programme...

..This kind of school screening would help in detecting the eye problems timely and thus would reduce the ocular morbidity as well as prevent children from going blind unnecessarily...

..Simultaneous testing of distant visual acuity and stereopsis test elevate the sensitivity and preserve the specificity...

..In the present study, we estimate the prevalence of eye and vision disorders among young children who participated in a vision screening program in the St. John's, Newfoundland, metropolitan region.

To examine the relative prevalence of ocular conditions among children who are unable to perform preschool vision screening tests and the impact on measures of screening test performance.

..To study the developmental trend of the binocular grating acuity of preschool children...

..Surveys have been conducted to measure prevalence of eye disease in Africa, but not of incidence, which is needed to forecast trends. The incidence of visual loss is reported in southwest Uganda...

..To meet this need at our program, an office-based curriculum of common pediatric primary care skills was developed and piloted in a resident continuity practice...

..The prevalence of strabismus and amblyopia remains unknown from these data because both diagnoses are included under the heading, eye diseases...

The second Cambridge Infant Vision Screening Program examined whether screening for accommodative errors by using videorefraction without cycloplegia could effectively serve as a first stage of screening for refractive errors, measured by ..

..At about the same time, interest in vision screening in children allowed us to detect amblyopia at an earlier time of life, which then gave us a better chance of ..

The purpose of this study is to assess the predictive ability of the test-positive findings of an elementary school vision screening program, conducted by 2nd-year optometry students, in identifying children with eye or vision disorders.

..To determine the prevalence of Amblyopia and other refractive errors and to identify the factors associated with these disorders...

..two groups of first-grade children: one group who participated in the Head Start program before the intensive vision screening program was initiated, and a second group who participated in the study's Head Start vision screening program.

..To estimate the magnitude and causes of blindness and low vision in The Netherlands from 2000 to 2020...

Population-based vision screening studies of the prevalence rate of low vision and blindness in the U.S. are reviewed to evaluate the sources of disagreement among studies...

..Complete details of the VIP Study rationale, design, and methods are contained in the VIP Manual of Procedures (MOP), which is submitted with the VIP Study chair application. ..

..Accuracy and reproducibility of the VBI will be assessed on a small population of adult volunteers before clinical prototype development and extended clinical trial will be commenced in Phase II. ..

..We propose an annual vision screening of all kindergartners, second, and fifth graders (kindergartners, third, and sixth graders in southern ..

..and targets at different distances, the technology measures vergence and accommodation along with standard vision screening parameters...

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..And less than 22% of preschool children have some type of vision screening. Further, the methods for vision Screening vary tremendously and the effectiveness of the methods in ..

..To accomplish these goals, a battery of vision screening tests will be administered to 1278 three- and four year-old children enrolled in Head Start throughout ..

..If so, public policies regarding vision screening by schools may need to be changed...

..Preschool vision screening is therefore recommended as a standard component of well-child care...

..In addition to UABSO, the other clinical centers are located at Colleges of Optometry in Boston, Houston, and Philadelphia, with the Study Chair in Boston and the Coordinating Center at Stony Brook. ..

..But, our experience with the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) / NEI expert panel on Vision Screening in the Preschool Child and the CHB/American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Project Universal Preschool Vision ..

..MEPEDS will also be studying selected demographic, biological and behavioral risk factors associated with these diseases and the consequences of these diseases from a health related quality of life perspective. ..