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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Optom Vis Sci. 2012 Jun;89(6):892–900. doi: 10.1097/OPX.0b013e318255da73

Table 4.

Predictors of Adequate Correction at the Follow-up Visit.

Full Sample
N = 798
Subset with Parental Factors
N = 447
Predictor Odds Ratio
(95% Ci)
Effect P Value Odds Ratio
(95% Ci)
Effect P Value
Screening* 0.69
(0.40 – 1.22)
0.21 0.68
(0.32–1.42
0.30
Ethnicity 0.15 0.13
White Reference Reference
Native American 0.43
(0.21 – 0.88)
0.49
(0.20–1.20)
Asian 0.88
(0.48 – 1.60)
0.36
(0.13–0.98)
African American 0.53
(0.24 – 1.15)
0.30
(0.09 – 0.99)
Hispanic 0.63
(0.39 – 1.03)
0.73
(0.37–1.44)
Female 0.92
(0.67 – 1.27)
0.62 0.82
(0.53–1.27)
0.38
Age (years) 1.12
(1.03 – 1.22)
0.01 1.06
(0.94–1.20)
0.32
Uncorrected VA Better Eye
(0.1 logMAR)
1.13
(1.06 – 1.20)
< 0.001 1.13
(1.04–1.22)
0.005
Income <$25,000 1.19
(0.72–1.95)
0.49
At least High School
Education
1.66
(0.97–2.83)
0.06
A Myopic Parent 0.95
(0.57–1.58)
0.85
*

Screening refers to the care model where parents were notified and their child referred after failing the vision screening compared to the complete care model that provided an eye examination and eye glasses, if needed at no cost.