Less than a third of children have gotten their vision checked in the past year at their regular primary care clinic, a new study finds.
, such as from a parent's job, had only slightly higher rates of screening, at 34% in the past year, according to the study inScreening rates are highest, but still low, in children between the ages of 3 and 5, the study shows. They're part of the age group covered by a national universal vision screening guideline, because of the importance of spotting amblyopia, or"lazy eye," early and treating it.
In elementary school-aged children, screening rates were five percentage points below the rates for preschoolers across the board. And only 25% of privately insured middle-school and high-school-aged children, and 20% of their publicly insured and 17% of their uninsured peers, had their vision checked recently by their regularThe study looked at data from nationally representative surveys of parents conducted by the National Survey of Children's Health from 2018 to 2020.
"Well-child visits, and other annual checkups such as school or camp physicals, are critical opportunities for catching eye-related issues in children that can have lasting consequences for their education and lives, and these data clearly show room for improvement," said Olivia Killeen, M.D., M.S., who performed the study while she was a National Clinician Scholar at the U-M Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation and Kellogg Eye Center.
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