A Visual Profile of Queensland Indigenous Children

Optometry and Vision Science : Official Publication of the American Academy of Optometry
Shelley HopkinsJoanne M Wood

Abstract

Little is known about the prevalence of refractive error, binocular vision, and other visual conditions in Australian Indigenous children. This is important given the association of these visual conditions with reduced reading performance in the wider population, which may also contribute to the suboptimal reading performance reported in this population. The aim of this study was to develop a visual profile of Queensland Indigenous children. Vision testing was performed on 595 primary schoolchildren in Queensland, Australia. Vision parameters measured included visual acuity, refractive error, color vision, nearpoint of convergence, horizontal heterophoria, fusional vergence range, accommodative facility, AC/A ratio, visual motor integration, and rapid automatized naming. Near heterophoria, nearpoint of convergence, and near fusional vergence range were used to classify convergence insufficiency (CI). Although refractive error (Indigenous, 10%; non-Indigenous, 16%; p = 0.04) and strabismus (Indigenous, 0%; non-Indigenous, 3%; p = 0.03) were significantly less common in Indigenous children, CI was twice as prevalent (Indigenous, 10%; non-Indigenous, 5%; p = 0.04). Reduced visual information processing skills were more common in I...Continue Reading

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Apr 20, 2017·Optometry and Vision Science : Official Publication of the American Academy of Optometry·Erin M HarveyLeslie K Dennis
Jan 13, 2017·Optometry and Vision Science : Official Publication of the American Academy of Optometry·Shelley HopkinsJoanne M Wood
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Mar 24, 2020·Clinical & Experimental Optometry : Journal of the Australian Optometrical Association·Mei Ying BoonMalcolm Ryan
Nov 28, 2020·Translational Vision Science & Technology·Scott A ReadJoanne M Wood
Jan 5, 2021·Optometry and Vision Science : Official Publication of the American Academy of Optometry·Rebecca A CoxJoanne M Wood

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