Table 5.

Visual acuity status and diagnosis of children who screened positive for visual impairment who then attended the hospital

	Peek group	Standard group
Visual acuity among children attending hospital
Children in each group	276*	78†
6/12 or better in both eyes	208 (75%)	41 (52%)
Worse than 6/12 in either eye (visual impairment confirmed)	68 (25%)	37 (47%)
Visual acuity in the worst seeing eye of children without visual impairment in hospital
Children in each group	208	41
6/5	3 (1%)	0
6/6	107 (51%)	23 (56%)
6/9	66 (32%)	13 (32%)
6/12	32 (15%)	5 (12%)
Diagnosis among children without visual impairment in hospital
Children in each group	208	41
Normal eyes	7 (3%)	1 (2%)
Allergic conjunctivitis, including vernal kerato-conjunctivitis	139 (67%)	32 (78%)
Refractive error	21 (10%)	4 (10%)
Others	5 (2%)	0
Not stated	36 (17%)	4 (10%)
Visual acuity in the worst seeing eye of children with visual impairment (in either eye) in hospital
Children in each group	68	37
6/18	19 (28%)	14 (38%)
6/24	13 (19%)	7 (19%)
6/36	8 (12%)	4 (11%)
6/60	9 (13%)	3 (8%)
5/60 or worse	19 (28%)	9 (24%)
Diagnosis among children with visual impairment (in either eye) in hospital
Children in each group	68	37
Allergic conjunctivitis, including vernal kerato-conjunctivitis	6 (9%)	3 (8%)
Refractive error	31 (46%)	26 (70%)
Corneal scars	4 (6%)	2 (5%)
Globe abnormalities	9 (13%)	3 (8%)
Cataracts	2 (3%)	1 (3%)
Others	8 (12%)	1 (3%)
Not stated	8 (12%)	1 (3%)

Data are n (%).

^*Vision from nine children was not recorded.

^†Vision from four children was not recorded.