title: Ophthalmic screening of school children in Ankara.
abstract: Ophthalmic screening was done on 23,810 children visited at schools in different regions of Ankara. Children with below normal visual acuity were invited to the outpatient department and had a full routine ocular examination. Thirty-nine nursery and primary schools were selected, ten of them private, eleven average state schools, seven good state schools and eleven village schools. Among the 23,810 children, 3095 (13%) had various pathology; 1516 were girls, 1579 boys. Refractive errors were found in 85% of the children (2630). This equals 11% of the total screened population. Refractive errors were myopia 32%, hypermetropia 21%, astigmatism 47%. Strabismic children were 2.5%, and amblyopia was found in 1.1%. The purpose of the study was to assess the place of an ocular screening program in primary school children and to discuss the differences encountered in different urban areas.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Medicine Eye, Hospital, Ankara University, Turkey.
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Turaçli
authors.forename: S G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Aktan
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Dürük
mesh_terms: D017677:Age Distribution; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D015995:Prevalence; D012030:Refractive Errors / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D012574:Schools; D014421:Turkey / Q000453:epidemiology; D014505:Urban Population; D014786:Vision Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D015351:Vision Screening; D014792:Visual Acuity