Prevalence and Pattern of Eye Diseases in ONE Elementary School Children, A Cross Sectional Study

Abstract: Vision is very important for a child's development during infancy and early childhood and later on for learning and communications. Almost three-fourth of a child's early learning is acquired through vision. In this study were focusing to determine eye diseases in an elementary school in Taif city, western region of Saudi Arabia. We have conducted a cross-sectional short study on Alandalous private elementary school children for screening for eye diseases in general, which is a part of our evaluation in Family Medicine module in college of medicine, Taif university. In November-2015. The study included 118 male students throughout all academic elementary years from 1st to 6th. Their age ranges from 6 to 13 years old. The need for visual screening is important because in this study there was a relatively large percentage of students with decreased visual acuity that they don’t know they have a problem which may lead to problems to their academic level and learning ability and thus an affection them and their family’s emotional well-being that can be prevented only by visual screening and then correction of their vision. Keywords: elementary school children, students, Eye Diseases, Medicine. Title: Prevalence and Pattern of Eye Diseases in ONE Elementary School Children, A Cross Sectional Study Author: Sami Meshal M Althobaiti, Turki Muteb S Alotaibi, Rayan Azeb R Alharthi, Loaiee Faisal I Halawani, Seham Saed S Alrubaie, Huda Daifalkareem M Alsaadi, Saleh Hassan A Almuntashiri, Muhannad AbdulAziz H Jawmin International Journal of Healthcare Sciences ISSN 2348-5728 (Online) Research Publish Journals

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