Vision Impairment and Blindness Prevalence in the United States: Variability of Vision Health Responses across Multiple National Surveys.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To support survey validation efforts by comparing prevalence rates of self-reported and examination evaluated presenting visual impairment (VI) and blindness measured across national surveys.

Design

Cross-sectional comparison.

Participants

Participants in the 2016 American Community Survey, the 2016 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, the 2016 National Health Interview Survey, the 2005-2008 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), and the 2016 National Survey of Children's Health.

Methods

We estimated VI and blindness prevalence rates and confidence intervals for each survey measure and age group using the Clopper-Pearson method. We used inverse variance weighting to estimate the central tendency across measures by age-group, f

SUBMITTER: Rein DB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7780230 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature