Demographic characteristics and ocular needs of children attending child eye clinics in Cross River State, Nigeria: a retrospective analysis of clinical records.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To describe the demographic characteristics and ocular needs of children attending four child eye clinics in Cross River State, Nigeria, to inform the development of a sustainable spectacle cross-subsidisation scheme.

Design

Retrospective analysis of clinic records.

Setting

Four child eye clinics in Calabar, Ogoja, Ikom and Ugep, Cross River State, Nigeria, from 1 May 2017 to 30 June 2019.

Participants

Children who failed the vision screening in schools and visited assigned child eye clinics, and self-referred children from the community.

Main outcome measures

Children's age, sex, residence, diagnosis, disease management, presenting and corrected visual acuity, history of spectacle wear and magnitude of refractive errors in spherical equivalen

SUBMITTER: Yong AC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9092169 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature