IJERPH, Vol. 19, Pages 12727: Impact of Teacher Incentive Intervention on Students & rsquo; Vision Healthcare Uptake: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial

IJERPH, Vol. 19, Pages 12727: Impact of Teacher Incentive Intervention on Students’ Vision Healthcare Uptake: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health doi: 10.3390/ijerph191912727 Authors: Jin Zhao Huan Wang Hongyu Guan Kang Du Yunyun Zhang Nathan Congdon Less than one-third of rural Chinese children with refractive error own or wear eyeglasses. To study the effect of teacher incentives on the acceptance of vision care offered to rural students with uncorrected refractive error, we conducted a cluster-randomized controlled trial in 18 townships in one county in Shaanxi Province. Primary and junior high schools within each township were assigned to either intervention (all teachers received an incentive) or control (no teacher incentives were offered) groups. A total of 42 schools were assigned to either the intervention group (13 schools) or the control group (29 schools). Teachers in the intervention group could elect to receive high-value (sunglasses worth USD 148), moderate-value (eyeglasses worth USD 89), or cash incentives (USD 35) if ≥70% of eligible students (uncorrected visual acuity (VA) ≤ 6/12 in both eyes and corrected VA ≤ 6/9.5 in both eyes) in the teacher’s class visited a program-affiliated vision center (VC) within 60 days after their vision screening. Among 8238 students, 3401 (41.2%, of which 53.0% were girls with a mean a...
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