The Prevalence of Primary School Students Eye Problems in Kut Province, Iraq

Abstract

Blindness overall the world plus the impact of eye problems on the school performance represent a trouble of public health. More than 200 million individuals in the world present with a visual deficiency due to not corrected defects of refraction. The study aimed to estimate the prevalence of primary school students eye problems in Kut province, Iraq. It is a cross-sectional study in the primary education schools of the Kut province at a period of 6 months. The vision among some patients is so bad that they cannot even read the first line (6/60). A child who reads all the opto-types without hesitation in a vision of 6/6, without functional lesion nor organic noted (normal eye, i.e. Emmetrope). A child who does not manage to read the opto-types, this one will be subjected to the test with hole stenopeic so only the child improve his vision up to 6/6, the diagnosis of positive eye trouble (amétropie). Female was frequent than male (71% vs 29%). About 51% of patients aged between 6-9 years. and 49% of patients aged between 10-12 yrs. Of 500, 305(61%) lived urban regions and 39% of child lived in rural areas. Positive past medical history found in 10%. Positive family history documented in 16%. Cases of the pupils who did not pause of eye trouble (emmetropia) 65% while those with eye trouble (ametropies) 35%. Ametropie student with poor results recorded in (107, 61.1%), while medium result presented in 29.1% of patients. High results reported in 9.8%. There are a significant difference between the pupils with eye trouble (ametropies) and those with normal vision (emmetropia).