Improving myopia awareness via school-based myopia prevention health education among Chinese students
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Jian-Min Hu. Department of Ophthalmology, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Quanzhou 362000, Fujian Province, China. doctorhjm@163.com

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Supported by National Key R&D Programmes of China (No.2018YFC2002602); Special Task of the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China (No.087280); Sanming Project of Medicine in Shenzhen (No.SZSM201812090); Startup Fund for Scientific Research, Fujian Medical University (No.2020QH1109); Fujian Medical University High-level Talents Scientific Research Launch Fund (No.XRCZX2021011).

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    AIM: To investigate the myopia awareness level, knowledge, attitude, and skills at baseline and to implement and evaluate the efficacy of myopia prevention health education among Chinese students. METHODS: A total of 1000 middle school students from 2 middle schools were invited to participate in the study, and myopia prevention health education was conducted. The students were assessed at baseline, followed by a survey. The efficacy of health education was evaluated using the self-comparison method pre- and post-health education. RESULTS: The study included 957 and 850 pre- and post-health education participants, respectively. The baseline knowledge of all respondents on myopic symptoms (87.5%), myopia is a risk of eyes (72.9%), myopia prevention (91.3%), myopia increases with age (86.7%), performing periodic eye examinations (92.8%), and one first, one foot, and one inch (84.8%) significantly increased after health education (P<0.001 for all). However, the percentage of students who still did not think it necessary to take breaks after 30-40min of continuous near work was 27.0%. The opinion that “myopia can be cured” was still present in 38.3%. CONCLUSION: Implementing school-based myopia prevention health education improves knowledge, attitudes, and skills regarding myopia among Chinese middle school students.

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Luo-Ming Huang, Xian-Ming Fan, Yu-Hong Xie, et al. Improving myopia awareness via school-based myopia prevention health education among Chinese students. Int J Ophthalmol, 2023,16(5):794-799

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  • Received:June 10,2022
  • Revised:March 27,2023
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  • Online: April 27,2023
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