Receipt of Corrective Lenses and Academic Performance of Low-Income Students.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Untreated vision problems are associated with poor school performance. Whether providing glasses alone improves performance, however, remains unknown. We sought to test whether receiving glasses was associated with improved school performance for low-income minority students in Los Angeles.

Methods

From 2017 to 2018, we analyzed achievement marks in mathematics and language arts from 406 first to fifth grade students attending 24 public elementary schools who received glasses through a free school-based vision program between February and May 2014, and 23,393 of their nonparticipating same-school, same-grade peers. We calculated students' percentile rank during each grading period in 1 year before and 2 years since they received glasses. Multilevel linear regressio

SUBMITTER: Dudovitz RN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7343614 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep - Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature