Shireen N Abed, Sireen Al Attar, Bothaina Shaikh Khalil, Laila Al Masharfa, Nashwa Skaik, Luca Ronfani, Silvia Pivetta, John C S Murray
Quality of Early Essential Newborn Care in hospitals in Gaza: a pre-intervention and post-intervention study
Lancet (London, England)
determine prevalence refractive errors group 8yearold school children northwestern poland 20172019 refractive errors examined group 1518 caucasian children aged 8 years old cycloplegia refraction obtained handheld autorefractor retinomax 3 refractive error reading expressed spherical equivalent se myopia 05 emmetropia 05 05 mild hyperopia 05 20 hyperopia 20 astigmatism 075 dc anisometropia 100 data analysis performed using statistica 135 software included pearsons chisquared mannwhitney u tests pvalues 005 considered statistically significant mild hyperopia common 376 myopia observed 168 astigmatism 106 participants pseudomyopia concerned 5191 children girls significantly likely mild hyperopia p 00144 significantly likely wear glasses p 000093 screening children refractive errors cycloplegia key detecting accommodative spasm refractive errors largest group children presented mild hyperopia physiological feature refraction 8yearold children myopia astigmatism common refractive errors