Abstract
Purpose: This study was designed to investigate the current status of visual acuity for elementary school students in Muan-gun and to analyze improvements of their visual function after vision training for the elementary school students who have either insufficiency of accommodation or vergence. Methods: Subjective refraction, objective refraction and binocular function were examined for 335 elementary school children from year 1 to year 6 live in Muan area, and then 47 students who have symptoms of binocular dysfunction among them were selected. We analyzed and compared between before and after vision training (VT) in binocular vision function results. Results: The results show that most of the subjects had much problem in near point convergence (NPC) than accommodation. After the vision training, the average of subjects NPC was improved about 5.93 cm, from $11.57 {\pm}1.850$ cm for before VT to $5.66{\pm}0.965$ cm for after VT. After VT positive fusional vergence at near distance after VT was $19.64{\pm}3.66$ $\Delta$, which was as much as double of near phoria. Accommodative amplitude was improved from $10.02{\pm}2.566$ D for before VT to $12.30{\pm}1.397$ D for after VT, which similar to mean of expected accommodative amplitude of 11.27 years old. Conclusions: Among insufficiency of accommodation and vergence NPC was improved specially, and accommodative facility and other ocular functions were also improved. Therefore, it is considered the vision training is very effective to recover from visual function problems.
목적: 무안군내 초등학교 학생들의 시력상태를 파악하고, 조절력과 버전스 부족 학생들의 시훈련 후의 시기능 향상에 관하여 알아보고자 한다. 방법: 무안군내 초등학교 1학년~6학년까지 약 335명을 대상으로 자각적 타각적 굴절검사, 양안시기능검사 실시 후 시기능이상 증상을 호소하는 47명을 대상으로 시기능 훈련 실시 후 각 검사 결과를 비교 분석하였다. 결과: 본 연구 대상 학생들의 대부분은 조절력보다는 폭주근점에서 문제를 나타내었다. 폭주근점은 훈련 전 $11.57{\pm}1.850$ cm에서 훈련 후 $5.66{\pm}0.965$ cm로 나타나 약 5.93 cm 정도 폭주근점이 당겨진 것을 알 수 있었고, 근거리의 양성융합 버전스는 훈련 후 사위량의 2배 값인 약 $19.64{\pm}3.66$ $\Delta$를 나타내었다. 조절력은 훈련 전 약 $10.02{\pm}2.566$ D에서 훈련 후 $12.30{\pm}1.397$ D 정도로 개선되어 평균연령 11.27세의 조절력 기대치와 비슷함을 나타내었다. 결론: 조절력과 융합버전스 부족 중에서 특히 폭주근점이 큰 폭으로 상승하였고, 조절용이를 포함한 대부분 시기능 항목들도 향상된 수치를 나타낸 것으로 보아 시훈련은 많은 효과가 있었다고 사료된다.
