Prevalence of Refractive Error in Government Primary School Children of Shaheed Benazirabad

Abstract

Objectives: To determine the prevalence for errors of refraction in children of primary school. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in 137 government schools of district shalieed benazirabad sindh Pakistan from December 2016 to January 2017. Approximately 9500 enrolled children were screened from 139 government schools of district Shaheed Benazirabad for refractive error via history questions and 220 detected children were screened by visual acuity. The collected was analyzed statistically and the results were tabulated. Result: In this study 9.5% of history positive children were having refractive error on visual acuity, 3.6% having congenital anomaly 1.r./. having night blindness and 1.4Q,, were having trauma. Conclusion: Our study concludes that prevalence of refractive errors among school children is rapidly increasing. It is an unrecognized cause for poor performance at schools.