Vision screening of an adolescent inner city population: a high failure rate and low compliance on follow-up care.
625 inner city high school students were screened. Some 45.8% of this sample were designated as special education students. The referral rate was 52.3% for all students screened. Detailed failure rate by group and category are reported. Special education students had a higher incidence of uncorrected hyperopia and binocular dysfunction. Intervention strategies to improve a poor compliance rate for follow-up care are discussed.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009519:New York City; D010349:Patient Compliance; D013332:Student Dropouts; D014505:Urban Population; D014786:Vision Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D015351:Vision Screening / Q000379:methods*