Visual impairment and its correction among Pacific youth in Aotearoa: findings from the Pacific Islands Families Study.

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Visual impairment and its correction among Pacific youth in Aotearoa: findings from the Pacific Islands Families Study.

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AIM: Childhood visual impairment has a life-long impact that, with early access to eyecare, is largely avoidable. We aimed to understand visual impairment and its correction among Pacific youth in Aotearoa New Zealand. METHOD: The Pacific Islands Families Study is a birth cohort study that tracks an original sample of 1,398 Pacific children born at Middlemore Hospital (Auckland). This analysis focuses on assessed visual acuity (at 9- and 18-years, using 0.3logMAR or 6/12 as the cut-off for vi...

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2021-10-8

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Hamm, Lisa M / Johnson, Isabel A / Jacobs, Robert J / Paterson, Janis E / Tautolo, El-Shadan / Iusitini, Leon / Garrett, Nick / Purdy, Suzanne C

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https://hdl.handle.net/2292/57764

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11 Medical and Health Sciences

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