Validity and feasibility of a self-administered home vision examination in Yueqing, China: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate the validity and feasibility of a self-administered home vision examination programme in China.

Design

Cross-sectional study.

Setting

Yueqing, China.

Participants

A two-stage convenience sampling procedure was used to randomly select 600 households from 30 communities participating in the Yueqing Eye Study (YES). The aim of YES is to encourage home-based vision screening, reporting of visual acuity (VA) annually through social media and encouraging people to attend follow-up clinic appointments as a way to improve eye care access for adults with VA ≤+0.5 log of the minimum angle of resolution (logMAR).

Interventions

Household screeners (one per household) who tested other family members' VA completed a questionnaire on family str

SUBMITTER: Ge Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7199938 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature