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Research Article

Uncorrected Refractive Error and Presbyopia among Junior High School Teachers in Jakarta, Indonesia

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Pages 369-374 | Received 01 Mar 2012, Accepted 17 May 2013, Published online: 29 Oct 2013
 

Abstract

Purpose: To report on the frequency of observed refractive and accommodative errors among junior high school teachers in Jakarta, Indonesia, who participated in a Helen Keller International screening, refraction and spectacle distribution program.

Methods: A total of 965 teachers from 19 schools were eligible for screening; those with uncorrected distance visual acuity (VA) ≤6/12-3 and teachers ≥35 years old with uncorrected end-point print size >Jaeger (J) 6 were referred. Autorefraction and subjective refraction were performed for teachers with confirmed decreased VA. Refractive error was considered present if sphere ≤−0.75 diopters (D), sphere ≥+0.25D or cylinder ≤−0.50D resulted in ≥2 lines of improvement in VA. Presbyopia was considered present if an end-point print size >J6 improved by ≥1 optotype with the use of a lens ≥+1.00D.

Results: Overall, 866 teachers were screened (89.7% of those eligible) with complete screening data available for 858 (99.0%), among whom 762 failed screening. Distance refraction data were available for 666 of 762 (87.4%) and near refraction data for 520 of 686 (75.8%) teachers who failed screening. Of those screened, 76.2 ± 9.0% of teachers had refractive and/or accommodative error and 57.1 ± 7.6% had uncorrected refractive and/or accommodative error. Overall and uncorrected distance refractive error affected 44.2 ± 3.7% and 36.0 ± 3.6%, respectively; overall and uncorrected presbyopia affected 66.4 ± 8.1% and 41.0 ± 6.6%, respectively.

Conclusion: As defined in this program, refractive and accommodative errors were common among teachers in Jakarta.

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