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Association of Selected Variables with Ocular Morbidity among School Going Children in Kancheepuram District, Tamil Nadu


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1 Department of Psychiatry, Sree Balaji Medical College and Hospital, Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research, Chennai-73, India
     

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Refractive errors are the leading cause of ocular morbidity in school-aged children of India.Children do not complain of defective vision and may not even be aware of their problem.Children in the school-going age group (6-16 years) represent 25% of the population in the developing countries. They offer significantly representative material for these studies as they fall best in the preventable blindness age group.

Keywords

Variables, Children, Morbidity.
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  • Association of Selected Variables with Ocular Morbidity among School Going Children in Kancheepuram District, Tamil Nadu

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S. Nambi
Department of Psychiatry, Sree Balaji Medical College and Hospital, Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research, Chennai-73, India
Priya Sivashankar
Department of Psychiatry, Sree Balaji Medical College and Hospital, Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research, Chennai-73, India

Abstract


Refractive errors are the leading cause of ocular morbidity in school-aged children of India.Children do not complain of defective vision and may not even be aware of their problem.Children in the school-going age group (6-16 years) represent 25% of the population in the developing countries. They offer significantly representative material for these studies as they fall best in the preventable blindness age group.

Keywords


Variables, Children, Morbidity.