Sensitivity and specificity of teachers for vision screening among primary school children in South India.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

This study aims to determine the sensitivity and specificity of vision screening by school teachers among primary school children.

Settings and design

Prospective nonrandomized clinical trial.

Subjects and methods

The study was carried in primary school children of Madurai, Tamil Nadu from April 2007 to October 2007. Sixty-five primary school teachers from 57 schools around Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India, underwent a half-day training programme at the hospital. Each teacher on return to the school screened around a hundred children using the tumbling E. All screened children were subsequently screened by a team from the hospital. The optometrists used tumbling E (Snellen's 20/30 and Early Treatment of Diabetic Retinopathy Study (ETDRS) 20/32) to check the vision of a

SUBMITTER: Muralidhar R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6561040 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May-Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature