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[Refractive errors as causes of visual impairment in children from public schools of the Botucatu region - SP]
Claudia Akemi Shiratori de Oliveira1, Kenia Scrocaro Hisatomi, Cristiano Pinheiro Leite
1Universidade Estadual Paulista 'Julio de Mesquita Filho', Botucatu, SP, Brasil.
Purpose:
To evaluate the refractive errors as cause of visual impairment in school children from the Botucatu region.
Methods:
A sectional study was conducted evaluating preschool and elementary school students, according to gender, refractive error, visual acuity and treatment.
Results:
Four thousand six hundred and twenty-three (4,623) children were submitted to visual acuity evaluation and 8.1% of them were submitted to complete ocular examination. There were 63.2% hyperopic astigmatism, 15.7% myopic astigmatism, 12.5% astigmatism, 4.9% hyperopia and 3.7% myopia. Corrective lenses were prescribed for 48.7% of the evaluated children.
Conclusion:
The most frequent refractive error was hyperopic astigmatism and 50% of the children received treatment. The frequency of refractive errors was 3.9% of the studied population.
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