Academic Performance and Refractive Error

Sun Yat-sen University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Refractive Errors

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04338880

CCPMOH2016-China-0901

Details and patient eligibility

About

Refractive errors constitute the leading cause of visual disability worldwide and that myopia progresses dramatically when students reach school age. Studies from different countries have reported inconsistent associations between educational outcomes and refractive errors. Therefore, our study aimed to assess the associations of high academic performance with ametropia prevalence and myopia progression in Chinese schoolchildren base on a multicohort observational design.

Enrollment: 10,000 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 to 15 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• schoolchildren in the 1st to 9th grades

Exclusion criteria

• schoolchildren unwilling to participate
• had a history of wearing rigid contact lenses, medical treatment or diseases that could cause poor vision or negatively affect the academic outcomes
• with unreliable auto-refraction values