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Study of School Eye Survey Conducted in Rural Areas of Jalandhar (Punjab), India | Original Article

Navdeep Gupta*, Saurabh Mishra, in Journal of Advances and Scholarly Researches in Allied Education | Multidisciplinary Academic Research

ABSTRACT:

In order to determine the prevalence of refractive errors and the pattern of ocular morbidity among the school children of a rural village, the purpose of this study was to gather this information. A cross-sectional study was conducted on children aged 4 to 15 years old in a rural village -Damurdarpur, Jalandhar( Punjab). The location of the study was in India. Every child was given a full eye exam, which consisted of retinoscopy, refraction under cycloplegia, and a measurement of the child's visual acuity using Snellen's E chart. In addition to that, the anterior segment, the media, and the fundii were all examined. Myopia was defined as a sphericalcylindrical equivalent refractive error of at least -0.50 D, and hypermetropia was defined as having a refractive error of +0.50 D or more . The survey involved the examination of 220 eyes belonging to 110 children, the majority of whom were in the age range of 5 to 10 years old. There were 85.40 percent of people who had a prevalence of uncorrected visual acuity of 66.