A community-based effort to increase the rate of follow-up eye examinations of school-age children who fail vision screening: a randomized clinical trial.

Journal of AAPOS : the Official Publication of the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus
David C MuschJohn Baker

Abstract

To determine whether enhanced follow-up after failed vision screening, involving more communication with parents/guardians than occurs in a standard protocol, would result in a higher rate of post-screening examination by an eye care provider. In a study conducted from January through December 2017, 162 children in first- and third-grade who failed a vision screening in their Wayne County, Michigan, schools were randomly assigned to receive an enhanced or the standard follow-up protocol. The average age of the children was 7.9 ± 1.1years; 84 (52%) were males. In the enhanced follow-up group, 52 of 80 (65%) had a documented eye examination within 16 weeks of their screening; the rate in those receiving standard follow-up was 48% (39/82). The intergroup difference in follow-up was 17.4% (95% CI, 2.4%-32.5%). The enhanced follow-up group's odds of obtaining a documented eye examination was twice that of the standard follow-up group (OR = 2.05; 95% CI, 1.09-3.85; P = 0.026). In this study cohort, methods to enhance communication proved effective in increasing the likelihood that children who failed vision screenings would receive an examination by an eye care provider.

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