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Epidemiology of childhood blindness: A community-based study in Bangladesh.
| العنوان: | Epidemiology of childhood blindness: A community-based study in Bangladesh. |
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| المؤلفون: | A H M Enayet Hussain, Junnatul Ferdoush, Saidur Rahman Mashreky, A K M Fazlur Rahman, Nahid Ferdausi, Koustuv Dalal |
| المصدر: | PLoS ONE, Vol 14, Iss 6, p e0211991 (2019) |
| بيانات النشر: | Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019. |
| سنة النشر: | 2019 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Medicine LCC:Science |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Medicine, Science |
| الوصف: | This study aimed to investigate the prevalence and causes of childhood blindness in a rural area of Bangladesh. We adopted a cross-sectional quantitative study design for this study, which was performed in three unions (sub-districts) located in Raiganj Upazila of the Sirajganj district in Bangladesh. Using a validated tool, a screening program was conducted at the household level. After initial screening, a team of ophthalmologists confirmed the diagnoses by clinical examinations. The prevalence of childhood blindness was observed to be 6.3 per 10,000 children, whereas the rate of uniocular blindness was 4.8 per 10,000 children. Congenital problems were the major causes of both uniocular and binocular blindness (uniocular blindness: 84% and binocular blindness: 92%). The whole globe was the site responsible for binocular blindness (28.0%, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 13.1, 47.7), whereas the cornea was responsible for uniocular blindness (57.8%, 95% CI: 35.3, 78.1). Childhood blindness is a public health problem in Bangladesh and is highly prevalent, regardless of sex. The major causes of childhood blindness are congenital. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1932-6203 |
| Relation: | https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203 |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0211991 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/9ac0c3ba07f149df936d755743d1a370 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsdoj.9ac0c3ba07f149df936d755743d1a370 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 19326203 |
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| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0211991 |