Journal article
Meeting the need for corrective spectacles in visually impaired Chinese school children: the potential of ready-made spectacles
Zhuoting Zhu, Leon B Ellwein, Sean K Wang, Jialiang Zhao, Mingguang He
British Journal of Ophthalmology | BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP | Published : 2019
Abstract
PURPOSE: To assess the potential of ready-made (spherical) spectacles (RMS) in meeting the need for refractive correction in visually impaired children in China. METHODS: Eligible children aged 5-17 years were identified from the three study sites in China. Distance visual acuity was measured with a retroilluminated logarithm of the minimum angle of resolution chart with tumbling E optotypes. Cycloplegic autorefraction was performed on all children using a handheld autorefractor. If uncorrected visual acuity (UCVA) was ≤20/40 in either eye, best corrected visual acuity was measured with subjective refractive error. RESULTS : A total of 13 702 children were enumerated from the three studies, ..
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Awarded by World Health Organization under National Institutes of Health
Awarded by National Natural Science Foundation of China
Funding Acknowledgements
The present work was supported by the World Health Organization under National Institutes of Health contract N01-EY-2103, the Fundamental Research Funds of the State Key Laboratory in Ophthalmology, and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81125007). MH receives support from the University of Melbourne at Research Accelerator Program and the CERA Foundation. The Centre for Eye Research Australia receives Operational Infrastructure Support from the Victorian State Government.