D A Goss1, B B Rainey. 1. School of Optometry, Indiana University, Bloomington 47405-3680, USA.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: One potential method for assessment of the effect of near work on childhood myopia progression is to compare progression rates overtime spans that have differing near-point demands. METHODS: Myopia progression rates were calculated for a 6-month period during the school year (called school rate in this article) and for a 6-month period that included the 3 months of summer vacation (called summer rate). Data used for analysis were right eye spherical equivalents from manifest subjective refractions of 27 children in a longitudinal study at Northeastern State University in Oklahoma, and 15 children in a longitudinal study at Indiana University. All subjects wore single-vision spectacle lenses. RESULTS: The mean summer rate for the 42 subjects was -0.39 diopters per year (D/yr) (SD = 0.46). The mean school rate was -0.72 D/yr (SD = 0.57). The rates during the two periods were significantly different by two-tailed paired t-test (p = 0.006). CONCLUSIONS: The differing amount of nearpoint activity during the school year and the summer is a potential explanation for the different rates of myopia progression during those two time periods.
BACKGROUND: One potential method for assessment of the effect of near work on childhood myopia progression is to compare progression rates overtime spans that have differing near-point demands. METHODS:Myopia progression rates were calculated for a 6-month period during the school year (called school rate in this article) and for a 6-month period that included the 3 months of summer vacation (called summer rate). Data used for analysis were right eye spherical equivalents from manifest subjective refractions of 27 children in a longitudinal study at Northeastern State University in Oklahoma, and 15 children in a longitudinal study at Indiana University. All subjects wore single-vision spectacle lenses. RESULTS: The mean summer rate for the 42 subjects was -0.39 diopters per year (D/yr) (SD = 0.46). The mean school rate was -0.72 D/yr (SD = 0.57). The rates during the two periods were significantly different by two-tailed paired t-test (p = 0.006). CONCLUSIONS: The differing amount of nearpoint activity during the school year and the summer is a potential explanation for the different rates of myopia progression during those two time periods.
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