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Prevalence of Ocular Morbidity in 5 to 14 Years Children in an Urban Resettlement Colony of New Delhi, India


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1 Department of Community Medicine, SMS&R, Sharda University, India
2 SMS&R, Sharda University, India
3 Department of Community Medicine, Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi, India
4 Department of Community Medicine, Vardhman Mahavir Medical College, New Delhi, India
5 Department of Ophthalmology, Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi, India
6 Department of Community Medicine, SMS&R, India
     

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Objective: To study the prevalence of ocular morbidities in children between 5 to 14 years in an urban resettlement colony of Delhi.

Materials and method: It is a community based cross-sectional study in Kalyanpuri, an urban resettlement colony and the urban field practice area of department of Community Medicine, Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi. A semi-structured, pre-tested questionnaire was prepared and filled by the principal investigator himself. A stratified random sample of 650 children using the proportionate allocation method was taken for the study. This was about 10% of the estimated children's population of the colony. Data was tabulated & analyzed using SPSS for windows software version 10.5.

Results: 25% of the study subjects were found to be suffering from some kind of ocular morbidity with 10.46% suffering from infectious & 15.69% from non-infectious disease.


Keywords

School-age Children, Resettlement Colony, Ocular Morbidity, Prevalence
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Authors

H Chauhan
Department of Community Medicine, SMS&R, Sharda University, India
S Dohare
SMS&R, Sharda University, India
J Khandekar
Department of Community Medicine, Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi, India
S K Pradhan
Department of Community Medicine, Vardhman Mahavir Medical College, New Delhi, India
R Jain
Department of Ophthalmology, Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi, India
H Mahajan
Department of Community Medicine, SMS&R, India

Abstract


Objective: To study the prevalence of ocular morbidities in children between 5 to 14 years in an urban resettlement colony of Delhi.

Materials and method: It is a community based cross-sectional study in Kalyanpuri, an urban resettlement colony and the urban field practice area of department of Community Medicine, Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi. A semi-structured, pre-tested questionnaire was prepared and filled by the principal investigator himself. A stratified random sample of 650 children using the proportionate allocation method was taken for the study. This was about 10% of the estimated children's population of the colony. Data was tabulated & analyzed using SPSS for windows software version 10.5.

Results: 25% of the study subjects were found to be suffering from some kind of ocular morbidity with 10.46% suffering from infectious & 15.69% from non-infectious disease.


Keywords


School-age Children, Resettlement Colony, Ocular Morbidity, Prevalence

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