[
    {
        "id": "osp-12692",
        "type": "article-journal",
        "title": "Visual acuity and refractive status of Omani students with refractive error in grades 1, 4 and 7: A retrospective cohort study",
        "author": [
            {
                "family": "Al-Harby",
                "given": "Saleh"
            },
            {
                "family": "Alasbali",
                "given": "Tariq"
            },
            {
                "family": "Khandekar",
                "given": "Rajiv"
            }
        ],
        "URL": "https://omanscience.com/en/articles/visual-acuity-and-refractive-status-of-omani-students-with-refractive-error-in-grades-1-4-and-7-a-retrospective-cohort-study",
        "language": "en",
        "issued": {
            "date-parts": [
                [
                    2016
                ]
            ]
        },
        "container-title": "Oman Journal of Ophthalmology",
        "volume": "9",
        "issue": "1",
        "page": "27-31",
        "DOI": "10.4103/0974-620x.176097",
        "publisher": "Medknow Publications",
        "ISSN": "0974-620X",
        "abstract": "Background: The visual and refractive status were assessed for grade 7 students in seven governorates in Oman. The health records were reviewed to assess the rationale for their previous school-based vision screening.\n\nMethods: A representative sample of 7(th) grade students with a refractive error (RE) was examined by optometrists in 2012. Their compliance with spectacle wear was also reviewed. Each student's vision and refractive status in grades 1 and 4 were compared with the status in grade 7. Each student's use of eye care services between grade 4 and 7 was evaluated to determine the uptake of existing eye services for vision problems.\n\nResults: This study had 286, 7(th) grade students with RE (myopia [94%], hyperopia [4%] and astigmatism [>1D] [2%]). The types of RE between genders in each grade were not significant (P > 0.05). During their vision screening when they were in grade 4, 5 of 13 moderate myopes (>-2D to - 6D) and 3 of 4 high myopes (>-6D) were detected and managed. Ten students with moderate and high myopia were already using spectacles before they were screened in grade 7. The compliance for spectacle wear was 62% in grade 7. Between grades, 4 and 7, 140 (49%) students did not visit eye clinics or an optician.\n\nConclusions: Refractive services in grade 4 were an additional initiative from the eye health care systems in Oman to the actual World Health Organization recommendations of conducting vision screening and RE corrections at grade 7 and 10. However, this was not proved to be significantly effective in early detection, and even the uptake of eye care services by school children was also low."
    }
]