Effect of a complex intervention to improve post-vision screening referral compliance among pre-school children in China: A cluster randomized clinical trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

We investigated whether specific appointments for quality-assured care could increase referral uptake, often low in China, in children's vision screening.

Methods

We randomized children aged 4-7 years in Yudu, Jiangxi, China, by school to Control (free school-based eye screening, parents of children failing screening recommended for further examination [usual practice]) or Intervention (identical examinations, with parents additionally provided with specific appointments for further examinations by quality-assured doctors at a designated local hospital). Both groups could select any hospital for referral exams, which were not free. Six months after screening, parents were interviewed on referral compliance at any hospital (primary outcome) and potential determinan

SUBMITTER: Zeng Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7005561 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature