Zohre Ghazivakili, Roohangiz Norouzi Nia, Faride Panahi, Mehrdad Karimi, Hayede Gholsorkhi, Zarrin Ahmadi
The role of critical thinking skills and learning styles of university students in their academic performance
Journal of advances in medical education & professionalism
patients high myopia increased lifetime risk complications prevalence patterns high myopia children adolescents southern china unclear early identification highrisk individuals critical reducing occurrence development high myopia avoiding resulting complications study aimed determine prevalence high myopia children adolescents southern china via realworld screening data predict onset studying risk factors high myopia based machine learning retrospective schoolbased study conducted 13 cities different gross domestic products southern china data acquisition filtering analyzed prevalence high myopia association age school stage gross domestic product risk factors random forest algorithm used predict high myopia among schoolchildren assessed independent holdout group 1285609 participants mean age 1180 sd 307 range 620 years 658516 512 male overall prevalence high myopia 448 2019 488 2020 317 2021 increasing trend age 11 17 years rates high myopia increased elementary schools high schools decreased school stages 2019 2021 coastal southern cities higher proportion high myopia overall prevalence 260 583 age uncorrected distance visual acuity spherical equivalents predictive factors high myopia onset schoolchildren random forest algorithm achieved high accuracy 0948 area receiver operator characteristic curve auc 0975 indicated sufficient model efficacy performance model validated external test high accuracy 0971 high auc 0957 high myopia high incidence guangdong province onset children adolescents well predicted random forest algorithm efficient use realworld data contribute prevention early diagnosis high myopia