Ocular morbidity among primary school children of Dhulikhel, Nepal

Authors

  • D Sherpa Assistant Professor, Nepal Eye Hospital, Tripureshwor, Kathmandu
  • CR Pant Professor, Department of Ophthalmolgy, Kathmandu University School of Medical Sciences, Dhulikhel Hospital, Dhulikhel, Kavrepalanchowk,
  • N Joshi Optometry, BP Koirala Lions Centre For Ophthalmic Studies, Kathmandu

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3126/nepjoph.v3i2.5272

Keywords:

primary school children, refractive error

Abstract

Background: Knowledge of disease pattern in children can help design preventive and curative strategies.

Objective: To study the pattern of ocular morbidity among the primary school children.

Subjects and methods: All the children of randomly-selected five government primary schools of Dhulikhel were included in this study. A complete eye examination was done in all children including color vision, loupe examination, refraction and Schiotz tonometry. Funduscopy and automated perimetry were done in selected children.

Results: A total of 466 primary school children were included in the study, of which 466 children 47 (10.08 %) had ocular morbidity. Refractive error was the commonest type of ocular morbidity in 11 (2.36 %). Hypermetropia was the commonest type of refractive error (0.84 %) in contrast to myopia (0.64 %). Conjunctivitis was the second common type of ocular morbidity (1.71 %). Glaucoma suspects accounted for 1.28 %, xexophthalmia 1.07 %, blephatitis 0.85 %, amblyopia 0.43 %, color blindness 0.43 %, conjunctival nevus 0.43 %, glaucoma 0.43 %, and strabismus 0.43 %, while congenital abnormalities were less common.

Conclusion: Refractive error is the commonest form of ocular morbidity in primary school children.

Key words: primary school children, refractive error

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/nepjoph.v3i2.5272

Nepal J Ophthalmol 2011; 3(2): 172-176

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Sherpa, D., Pant, C., & Joshi, N. (2011). Ocular morbidity among primary school children of Dhulikhel, Nepal. Nepalese Journal of Ophthalmology, 3(2), 172–176. https://doi.org/10.3126/nepjoph.v3i2.5272

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