Stereoacuity and related factors

• Verfasst von: Guo, Da-dong [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Jonas, Jost B. [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Stereoacuity and related factors
• Titelzusatz: the Shandong Children Eye Study
• Verf.angabe: Da-dong Guo, Jian-feng Wu, Yuan-yuan Hu, Wei Sun, Tai-liang Lv, Wen-jun Jiang, Hui Wu, Xing-rong Wang, Jost B. Jonas, Hong-sheng Bi
• E-Jahr: 2016
• Jahr: July 8, 2016
• Umfang: 13 S.
• Fussnoten: Gesehen am 08.07.2019
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: PLOS ONE
• Ort Quelle: San Francisco, California, US : PLOS, 2006
• Jahr Quelle: 2016
• Band/Heft Quelle: 11(2016,7) Artikel-Nummer e0157829, 13 Seiten
• ISSN Quelle: 1932-6203
• DOI: doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0157829
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: Age groups
• Sach-SW: Anatomy
• Sach-SW: Biology and life sciences
• Sach-SW: Children
• Sach-SW: Education
• Sach-SW: Endocrine physiology
• Sach-SW: Endocrinology
• Sach-SW: Eyes
• Sach-SW: Families
• Sach-SW: Head
• Sach-SW: KINDERGARTEN facilities
• Sach-SW: Mathematical and statistical techniques
• Sach-SW: Mathematics
• Sach-SW: Medicine and health sciences
• Sach-SW: Multivariate analysis
• Sach-SW: Neuroscience
• Sach-SW: NEUROSCIENCES
• Sach-SW: Ocular system
• Sach-SW: People and places
• Sach-SW: Physical sciences
• Sach-SW: Physiology
• Sach-SW: Population groupings
• Sach-SW: Psychology
• Sach-SW: Puberty
• Sach-SW: Research and analysis methods
• Sach-SW: Research Article
• Sach-SW: Schools
• Sach-SW: Sensory perception
• Sach-SW: SHANDONG Sheng (China)
• Sach-SW: Social sciences
• Sach-SW: Sociology
• Sach-SW: Statistical methods
• Sach-SW: Statistics (mathematics)
• Sach-SW: Vision
• Sach-SW: Visual acuity
• Sach-SW: VISUAL acuity
• K10plus-PPN: 1668738902

Abstract

Objective: To assess stereoacuity in a population-based sample of children and to examine ocular and systemic parameters related to stereoacuity. Methods: Using a random cluster sampling method, four- to 18-year-old children from kindergartens, elementary schools, junior high schools and senior high schools from a rural area and an urban area in the East Chinese province of Shandong were included in the school-based cross-sectional study. All participants underwent a comprehensive eye examination including assessment of cycloplegic refraction and measurement of stereoacuity using the Titmus Stereo test. Results: Out of 6364 eligible children, 5780 (90.8%) children with a mean age of 10.1 ± 3.2 years (range: 4 to 18 years) participated. Mean (± standard deviation) stereoacuity was 50.2 ± 50.6 arc seconds. Stereoacuity improved significantly (P<0.01) from the age group of 4 years to the age group of 6 to 7 years, then showed a plateau, deteriorated (P = 0.001) for both sexes from the age group of 9 years to the age group of 12 years (P<0.001), after which it improved (P = 0.001) again in the age group of 16 years or older to the pre-puberty values. In multivariate analysis, larger angle of binocular disparity (i.e., lower stereoacuity) was significantly associated with lower best corrected visual acuity (logMAR; P<0.001), higher intereye difference in refractive error (spherical equivalent) (P<0.001), higher cylindrical refractive error (P<0.001), higher refractive error (spherical value; P<0.001), higher intereye difference in best corrected visual acuity (logMAR) (P = 0.001), higher intereye difference in axial length (P = 0.001), and rural region of habitation (P = 0.006). Conclusions: Stereoacuity as tested with the Titmus Stereo test improved significantly from an age of 4 years to an age of 6 and 7 years, then remained constant, temporarily deteriorated for both sexes in pre-puberty and puberty, after which it improved again to pre-puberty or better values at the age of 16 years or older. Lower stereoacuity was associated with lower best corrected visual acuity and higher intereye difference in best corrected visual acuity, higher cylindrical and spherical refractive errors, higher inter-eye difference in refractive error, higher intereye difference in axial length, and rural region of habitation.