The Journal of Korean Society for School & Community Health Education (한국학교ㆍ지역보건교육학회지)
- Volume 9 Issue 2
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- Pages.81-90
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- 2008
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- 1975-7697(pISSN)
Correlation between Visual Symptoms and the Academic Performance as Assessed by COVD-QOL Questionnaire in Primary School Children
COVD-QOL을 사용하여 평가한 눈이상이 초등학교 어린이의 학업수행능력에 미치는 영향
- Shin, Hoy-Sun (Department of Public Health, Keimyung University) ;
- Park, Sang-Chul (Department of Ophthalmic Optics, Busan College of Information Technology) ;
- Park, Chun-Man (Department of Public Health, Keimyung University)
- Published : 2008.12.31
Abstract
Objectives: Since 80% of the information we get from the environment comes in through our eyes (Anshel JR, 1999), uncorrected visual problems negatively affect children's educational process and perceptual development. The objectives of this study were: 1st, to document the prevalence of learning related vision problem in primary school children. 2nd, to compare responses of children with those of parents on visual symptoms. Lastly, to determine if there is an association between visual symptoms and academic performance. Methods: We administered visual-symptom quality of life questionnaire developed by Oklahoma College of Optometry in Vision Development to 1031 primary school children and their parent. Visual symptoms responded by children and their parents were compared using Independent Sample t-test and the relation between visual symptoms and academic performance were calculated using Pearson Correlation tests. Results and Conclusions: The number of children who need further professional evaluation, that is visual-symptom scores were
Keywords
- Learning;
- Vision problem;
- Academic performance;
- College of optometrists in Vision Development-Quality of Life questionnaire(COVD-QOL)