Effectiveness of routine population-wide orthoptic preschool vision screening tests at age 6-24 months in the Netherlands.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The effectiveness of preverbal orthoptic tests at age 6, 9, 14 and 24 months in population-wide screening was assessed.

Methods

Two consecutive birth cohorts at 134 centres were compared. At general health screening visits, children born July-December 2011 were vision screened four times between 6 and 24 months with inspection, pupillary reflexes, eye motility, Hirschberg, cover test and monocular pursuit. Children born January-June 2012 were vision screened at general screening visits only in case of visually apparent abnormalities or positive family history. After referral, cause and severity of amblyopia were determined. Visual acuity was measured in all children at 36 and 45 months.

Results

The control and intervention group comprised 5649 versus 5162 chil

SUBMITTER: Sloot F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9290114 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature