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Associations of Children’s Close Reading Distance and Time Spent Indoors with Myopia, Based on Parental Questionnaire

2022

Purpose: To study the association of parents’ reports about their children’s near work and outdoor habits with myopia in their children. Methods: Data from a questionnaire study conducted in 1983 among Finnish schoolchildren were reanalyzed. Vision screening had been performed for all the schoolchildren (n = 4961) in the 1st, 5th, and 8th grades (7-, 11-, and 15-year-olds) in an area of Central Finland. The questionnaire, including information about myopia, was returned by 4305 (86.7%) participants. Items concerned parents’ estimates of their child’s habitual reading distance, time spent indoors as compared with age peers, daily near work, outdoors time, and parents&…

time spent indoorsulkoiluesiintyvyysparents’ myopiaclose reading distanceparents opinionCHILDHOODlikinäköisyyskyselytutkimuslapset (ikäryhmät)lukuetäisyyslukeminenAGEnuoretOUTDOOR ACTIVITIESWORLDWIDE3123 Gynaecology and paediatricsajankäyttöperinnöllisyysquestionnaire studychildren’s myopiaSCHOOLCHILDRENriskitekijätnäköchildren's myopiaPREVALENCEREFRACTIVE ERRORSvanhemmatparents opinion; children’s myopia; close reading distance; time spent indoors; outdoors; parents’ myopia; questionnaire studyoutdoorsPediatrics Perinatology and Child HealthRISK-FACTORSgeneettiset tekijätparents' myopia
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