ĐẶC ĐIỂM CẬN THỊ VÀ YẾU TỐ LIÊN QUAN ĐẾN CẬN THỊ Ở HỌC SINH TRUNG HỌC PHỔ THÔNG DÂN TỘC NỘI TRÚ TỈNH NGHỆ AN

Abstract

Objectives: Determining myopia characteristics and factors related to myopia in boarding high school students for ethnic minorities in Nghe An province. Subjects and methods: Cross-sectional descriptive study on 1,556 ethnic minority students studying boarding at 2 boarding high schools in Nghe An province from September 2023 to the end of April 2024. Results: There are 452 students with nearsightedness, accounting for 29.01%. Mild nearsightedness accounts for 77.9%. Myopia in both eyes accounts for 92.6%, myopia in one eye accounts for 7.76%. There are 20.58% of students who do not wear glasses and 31.19% of students wear glasses with the wrong degree on one eye; 20.36% of students wear the wrong degree in both eyes. There is a statistically significant relationship between the rate of myopia and gender, with women more than men; Near viewing time of more than 3 hours a day after regular school hours has a higher rate of myopia. There is no relationship between the rate of myopia with age and family factors in the study.