Vision screening for correctable visual acuity deficits in school-age children and adolescents.
CONCLUSIONS: Vision screening plus provision of free spectacles improves the number of children who have and wear the spectacles they need compared with providing a prescription only. This may lead to better educational outcomes. Health education interventions, as currently devised and tested, do not appear to improve spectacle wearing in children. In lower-income settings, ready-made spectacles may provide a useful alternative to expensive custom-made spectacles.
PMID: 29446439 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - Category: General Medicine Authors: Evans JR, Morjaria P, Powell C Tags: Cochrane Database Syst Rev Source Type: research
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