Prevalence of and risk factors for myopia among urban and rural children in Northeast China: protocol for a school-based cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The worldwide prevalence of myopia is high and continues to increase. In this study, a school screening programme for myopia will be implemented using the whole-process information method. The purpose of this study is to investigate the prevalence of myopia in urban and rural areas of Northeast China and to determine the factors related to myopia.

Methods and analysis

This is a school-based cross-sectional study. Our study population will include 6000 school-aged children from 2 urban and 2 rural schools in Jinzhou, China. The study will be conducted using our self-developed internet-based intelligent data collection, transmission, storage and analysis system. Examination parameters include uncorrected distance visual acuity, presenting distance visual acuity, n

SUBMITTER: Zheng T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10860113 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature