Abstract

SOTO GARCIA, Mavys et al. Refractive condition of one-year old children. Rev Cubana Oftalmol [online]. 2013, vol.26, n.2, pp.273-284. ISSN 0864-2176.

Objectives: to epidemically characterize the screened refractive condition of one-year old preschool children, who had been seen at the Ophthalmology service of "Pedro Esperon" policlinic located in Bauta, from 2010 to 2011. Methods: a descriptive, cross-sectional and observational study of the screened refractive condition of one-year old children, who went to the ophthalmological service of the above-mentioned hospital in the said period. The universe of study was 113 children, that is, the total number of children who went to the check-up program for the day care centers in the study period. The selected sample was made up of 98 kids representing 196 eyes. They were applied a complete ophthalmological test including retinoscopy; they were distributed by gender, race and family history whereas the eyes were classified according to the ametropies and level of severity of the lesion. Results: females (54.8%) and Caucasians (51.01%) were predominant. Family history of ametropia was present in 60.2%. It was found that there were 91.8% of ametropic eyes. Hypermetropia was the most frequent in 64.45%. Of the studied ametropies, the mild form prevailed (66.8%). Conclusions: the behaviour of the observed refractive conditions was within the expected limits according to the international reports on this topic.

Keywords : retinoscopy; astigmatism; hypermetropia; myopia; refractive condition.

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