Visual Status and Prevalence of Refractive Error among Preschool Children from Amblyopia and Vision Impairment Screening (AVIS) Programme in Kota Kinabalu

Authors

  • Rachel Clarice Linggam
  • Arifah Nur Bt Yahya
  • Muhassanah Aliah Bt Baharum

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51200/bjms.v13i.1799

Keywords:

amblyopia, preschool children, refractive error, visual impairment

Abstract

Introduction

Vision is an important requirement for learning and plays a critical role in the development of a child during the first three years of life. Little is known regarding the extent of visual impairment amongst preschool children in Sabah.

 

Author Biographies

Rachel Clarice Linggam

Optometry Unit,
Department of Ophthalmology,
Hospital Queen Elizabeth,
Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia


Arifah Nur Bt Yahya

Optometry Unit,
Department of Ophthalmology,
Hospital Queen Elizabeth,
Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia

Muhassanah Aliah Bt Baharum

Optometry Unit,
Department of Ophthalmology,
Hospital Queen Elizabeth,
Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia

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Published

2019-03-28

How to Cite

Linggam, R. C., Yahya, A. N. B., & Baharum, M. A. B. (2019). Visual Status and Prevalence of Refractive Error among Preschool Children from Amblyopia and Vision Impairment Screening (AVIS) Programme in Kota Kinabalu. Borneo Journal of Medical Sciences (BJMS), (1), 15. https://doi.org/10.51200/bjms.v13i.1799

Issue

2019: BORNEO JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES (BJMS), (Suppl.), MARCH 2019

Section

Abstracts

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The copyright of the article belongs to the authors, who retain ownership of their work published in the journal. Their work is distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license

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