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Table 1 Eye examination – average visual acuity, refractive error, and binocular status

From: Academic performance and musculoskeletal pain in adolescents with uncorrected vision problems

 

Prescription group

(n = 61)

Mean ± SD

Control group

(n = 91)

Mean ± SD

Habitual LogMAR VA (6 m)

RE

0.42 ± 0.21**

0.00 ± 0.02

LE

0.42 ± 0.21**

0.01 ± 0.04

Best corrected logMAR VA (6 m)

RE

0.00 ± 0.03

0.00 ± 0.02

LE

0.00 ± 0.02

-0.01 ± 0.04

Cycloplegic retinoscopy (SER) (6 m)

RE

-0.53 ± 0.52**

0.04 ± 0.65

LE

-0.52 ± 0.53**

0.03 ± 0.62

Binocular vision measurements

Heterophoria 6 m

-0.13 ± 0.72

0.00 ± 0.30

Heterophoria 40 cm

-3.41 ± 2.23

-3.35 ± 2.02

NPC

7.80 ± 1.20

7.80 ± 0.80

AA BIN

10.25 ± 1.79*

10.89 ± 1.26

  1. VA: visual acuity, SER: spherical equivalent error in diopters (D), RE: right eye, LE: left eye, BIN: binocular (both eyes), NPC: near point of convergence (cm), AA: amplitude of accommodation (D), Heterophoria: negative values denote prism diopter exophoria, positive values prism diopter esophoria. Habitual VA data were missing for three children in the prescription group and 13 children in the control group. *Statistically significant difference between groups (p < 0.05). **Statistically significant difference between groups with Bonferroni adjusted alpha levels