ArticleThe British and Irish orthoptic journal2022
A Comprehensive Overview of Vision Screening Programmes across 46 Countries.
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- Compliance with post-school vision screening referral: a systematic review.BMJ open ophthalmology · 2026Pooled it
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- Current status of school vision screening-rationale, models, impact and challenges: a review.The British journal of ophthalmology · 2025Review
- Refractive factors affecting the persistence of anisometropia in preschool-aged children.Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie · 2025Article
- The Prevalence of Accommodative and Binocular Dysfunctions in Children with Reading Difficulties.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Recommendations for the optimization of student led free vision screening programs.BMC medical education · 2024Article
- Artificial intelligence enhanced ophthalmological screening in children: insights from a cohort study in Lubelskie Voivodeship.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- Clinical usefulness of the baby vision test in young children and its correlation with the Snellen chart.International journal of ophthalmology · 2024Article
- Availability of data for cost-effectiveness comparison of child vision and hearing screening programmes.Journal of medical screening · 2023Article
- Pediatric and School-Age Vision Screening in the United States: Rationale, Components, and Future Directions.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Amblyogenic risk factors and validity of vision screening using spot-screener among kindergarten children in Qassim region, Saudi Arabia.Saudi journal of ophthalmology : official journal of the Saudi Ophthalmological SocietyArticle
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Abstract
Purpose: To describe and compare vision screening programmes and identify variance in number and type of tests used, timing of screening, personnel involved, monitoring and funding to be used as data for optimising, disinvesting or implementing future screening programmes. Methods: A questionnaire consisting of nine domains: demography & epidemiology, administration & general background, existing screening, coverage & attendance, tests, follow-up & diagnosis, treatment, cost & benefit and adverse effects was completed by Country Representatives (CRs) recruited from 47 countries. Results: The questionnaire was sufficiently completed for 46 Countries: 42 European countries, China, India, Malawi and Rwanda. Variation of provision was found in; age of screening (0-17 years), tests included (23), types of visual acuity (VA) test used (35 different optotypes), personnel (13), number of screens per child (median 5, range 1-32), and times VA tested (median 3, range 1-30). Infant screening is offered in all countries, whereas childhood vision screening is offered at least once in all countries, but not all regions of each country. All 46 countries provide vision screening between the ages of 3-7 years. Data on screening outcomes for quality assurance was not available from most countries; complete evaluation data was available in 2% of countries, partial data from 43%. Conclusion: Vision screening is highly variable. Some form of VA testing is being undertaken during childhood. Data collection and sharing should be improved to facilitate comparison and to be able to optimise vision screening programmes between regions and countries.
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