• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.11 no.8
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• pp.317-321
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• 2020

This study researched the correlation between myopic refractive errors and intraocular pressure. The study population comprised 39 adults(17 of males, 22 of females). We measured the intraocular pressure using a Non-Contact Tonometer(NCT) and the correlation between myopic refractive errors was analyzed by dividing into three groups: mild, moderate, high myopia. The gender of subjects showed no statistically difference between the intraocular pressure and refractive errors, but as the refractive errors increased, the intraocular pressure incereased, which showed a statistically significant difference. In addition, the higher intraocular pressure in moderate and high myopia than mild myopia can cause glaucoma, that can develop at a young age. it is need to sufficient recognition and understanding correlation between intraocular pressure and myopic refractive errors in the middle-aged high myopia.

• Journal of Korean Ophthalmic Optics Society
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.175-183
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• 2010

Purpose: This study investigated the impact of ametropia and myopia on health-related quality of life (QoL) measures in elementary schoolers. Methods: Elementary school children of 92 aged 12 to 13 were divided into emmetropia and myopia groups by spherical equivalent. Then myopia was classified into the low, moderate and high myopia groups. Vision-related QoL scores were determined using PedsQL 4.0 (Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory) with physical health (8 items), emotional functioning (4 items), social functioning (5 items) and school functioning (5 items). Results: The total QoL score in the myopia group appeared lower than that in the emmetropia group, however the difference was not statistically significant (p>0.05). When it comes to physical health (running or exercising) and social functioning (getting along with friends or being teased)-related questions, the QoL score in myopia was low compared with the emmetropia group (p<0.05). High myopia showed a low score in physical health items but there was no significant difference in overall QoL scores in comparison with other groups (p<0.05). Conclusions: Refractive errors does not have a great impact on the total health-related QoL in elementary school children but it causes discomfort in physical health and social functioning.

• Journal of Korean Ophthalmic Optics Society
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.125-129
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• 2008

Purpose: To research the study of abnormal refraction eye on women population of university students in South - East Korea. Methods: Between March 2007 and October 2007, the refraction test of eye glasses wearer was evaluated on women population (367 students, aged 19~22 years) of university in living on Kyung-Nam and Pusan province. Data was analysed with T-test. Results: On the abnormal refraction status, Compound Myopic Astigmatism was 76.72%, simple myopia was 10.90%, mixed astigmatism was 6.27%, respectively. On the prevalence of myopic power, low was 59.57%, moderate was 24.93%, high was 15.49%, respectively. On the myopic equivalent power, the right eye had more increase to compare to left eye. but these was not a statically significant correlation (p<0.5) between the right and left eyes. On the anisometropia of spherical equivalents and cylinder power, most subjects was under 1.0 diopter. On the other hand, the type of astigmatic axis was with-the rule (70.79%), against -the rule (18.41%), and oblique (10.80%). Conclusions: This study identify that the refraction status of abnormal refraction eye on women population in university students in South-East Korea have been more increased prevalence the myopia and astigmatism.

• Journal of Korean Ophthalmic Optics Society
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.43-47
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• 2001

The classifying distribution by the Spherical lens and Aspherical lens was middle myopic, middle myopic astigmatism middle mixed astigmatism compared. The refractive erroeye spherical lens were S-3.00 ~ S-6.00Dptr for the middle myopic 16%, S-6.00Dptr 19%, S-3.00C-0.50(90.180) ~ S-6.00C-2.00Asix(90.180)57%, S-3.00C+0.50(90.180) ~ S-6.00C+2.00Axis(90.180) 8% for the compound myopic astigmatism. Aspherical lens were S-3.00 ~ S-6.00Dptr for the middle myopic 31%, S-6.00Dptr 36%, S-3.00C-0.50(90.180) ~ S-300C-2.00Axis(90.180) 21%, S-3.00C+0.50(90.180) ~ S-3.00C+2.00Axis(90.180)12%, for the compound hyperopic astigmatism.

• Journal of Korean Ophthalmic Optics Society
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.389-397
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• 2010

Purpose: This study was to investigate the changes of refractive error and astigmatism associated with age in Korean subjects between the ages of 6 and 80 years during 10-year period. Methods: 220 normal subjects (345 eyes) who visited ophthalmic clinic was recruited and followed for 10 years between 1999 and 2009, cycloplegic manifest refraction being performed annually. Visual acuity was tested on a Han's chart. Results: The mean 10-year change in the spherical equivalent refraction (SER) of age 6 to 10 years old and 10 to 20 years was -3.649D and -2.165D respectively. There was no change of refractive error in age 21 to 40 years. The myopic shift decreased with age from 41 up to 69 years but increased slightly in patients 70 years and older; the hyperopic shift showed the opposite trend. The distribution of refractive error over the 10 years in aged 6 to 10 and 11 to 20 years was shifted myopic. The incidence of medium (> -3.01D) to high myopia at age 6 to 10 years was 4.8% and after 10 years was 62.5%. The 10-year change of astigmatism axis was in "with the rule" direction for younger age group and in a "against the rule" direction for older subjects. Conclusions: This study has documented refractive error changes in Korean subjects and confirmed reported trends of myopic shift from age 6-20 years and hyperopic shift before age 70 years and a myopic shift thereafter. The axis of astigmatism turns to "against the rule" after 40's.

• Journal of Korean Ophthalmic Optics Society
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.131-138
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• 2000

We compared the study of refractive error of the eyes done in 1998 with that reported three years ago at any high school in the north Kyungki. From the these data, the distribution of ammetropia was investigated. The study of refractive error for high school students was also compared with those reported before for the Adults and the middle school student. When the refractive error is refered to spherical equivalent, the 40.6% of the whole students examined above had emmetropia and the other part of them(59.4%) turned out to be ammetropia which is classified to 46.4% belonged to myopia and 13.0% belonged to hyperpia. The ratio of emmetropia for the students in 1998 is 4.4% lower, and the ratio of hyperopia is 4.3% lower, but the ratio of myopia for the students in 1998 is 8.7% higher than that for the student in 1995. In the kind of refracive error, it is classified that a simple myopia is shown to highest ratio as a 23.6% of 6143 eyes examined, a compound myopic astigmatism to the next high ratio as a 17.4%, a simple myopic astigmatism as 10.9%, a simple hyperopic astigmatism as 9.8%, a simple astigmatism as 7.1%, a compound hyperopic astigmatism as 2.2%, a mixed astigmatism as a 1.8%, respectively. The percentage of an astigmatism is a 69.6% of total eyes examined if Cyl-0.25 Dptr is included to an astigmatism. On the other hand. The percentage of an astigmatism is a 45.0% of total eyes examined if Cyl-0.25 Dptr is excluded to an astigmatism. In the kind of astigmatism, the number of students had an astigmatism with the rule is about 5.6 times than that of astigmatism against the rule. From the result of comparison the right eye with the left eye, the right eye of the students had more a myopic refractive error than the left eye, which is same as adults' case.

• Journal of Korean Ophthalmic Optics Society
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.265-272
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• 2012

Purpose: To compare the results on myopia correction with reverse geometry lenses, effects of wearing reverse geometry lenses were evaluated for the children with low-level and high-level myopia. Methods: The research investigated the corrective effects of having worn reverse geometry lenses for one week, one month, three months and six months on a total of thirty-six persons (sixty-two eyes) between the ages of seven and fifteen, divided into three groups by the degree of their myopia; nineteen eyes(Group One) with myopia of -2.00 D and under, twenty-eight eyes(Group Two) with myopia between -2.25 D and -4 D, and fifteen eyes(Group Three) with myopia of -4.25 D and above; as shown by changes in uncorrected vision and the degree of refraction in the corneal topography, and tested for statistical similarity among the pursued results. Results: After wearing reverse geometry lenses, Group One showed an improvement in vision of 0.5, from 0.45 to 0.95, after one week, and improvements to 0.91 after one month and 1.02 after three months but, after six months, the group's vision regressed to 0.95. Group Two showed an improvement in vision of 0.43, from 0.34 to 0.77, after one week of wearing and to 0.91 after one month, to 0.97 after three months and this was statistically maintained through the remainder of six months. Group Three showed an improvement in vision of 0.55, from 0.15 to 0.7, after wearing for one week, to 0.87 after one month and to 0.91 after three months but saw a regression to 0.86 after six months. The average Sim K (simulated keratometry reading) value for Group One started from $42.84{\pm}1.17D$ and decreased to $41.48{\pm}0.98D$ after one week of wearing and continued declining through three months before increasing during the remainder of six months. Group Two began from $42.91{\pm}1.57D$ and recorded $41.78{\pm}1.58 D$ after one week, continuing the decline through three months before increasing during the remainder of six months. Group Three began at $42.64{\pm}1.64D$ and showed its Sim K value decrease to $40.77{\pm}1.20D$ after one week of wearing, increase after one month and decrease after three months and continue the decline through the remainder of six months. Conclusions: From the results of this study, wearing reverse geometry lenses had myopia-correcting effects after one week of wearing. Although there were variations in the time for such effect to take place but myopia-correcting effects were evident in all test groups.

• Journal of Korean Ophthalmic Optics Society
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.59-65
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• 2012

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the distribution and correlation of accommodative lag with refractive error. Method: We had tested the clinical refraction and the accommodative lag in clinically normal 49 young adults (total 98 eyes) aged 18 to 25 years without abnormal binocular function. Monocular and binocular accommodative lag were tested with 0.50 D cross-cylinder lens and near vision test chart which had cross-hairs after full correction of LogMAR visual acuity over 0.05. Results: There was no statistical differences in monocular accommodative lag between right ($0.64{\pm}0.64$ D) and left eye ($0.63{\pm}0.64$)(p=0.858). The accommodative lag of male was higher than female and the range of the value was broader than female in binocular accommodative lag (p=0.015). The wider the inter-pupillary distance was, the higher the accommodative lag was (p=0.003). However, there were no differences with age (p=0.800) and dominant eye (p=0.402). The ranges of accommodative lag of low, middle, and high myopia were 0.75 ~ -0.25 D, 1.25 ~ -0.50 D, and 1.50 ~ -0.75 D, respectively, and the regression was 'y = -0.03953x+0.09205'. Conclusions: These data suggest that clinically normal young adults with high amounts of refractive error have more variable accommodative lag and increased spherical equivalent refraction.

• Journal of Korean Ophthalmic Optics Society
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.1-12
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• 2007

Object of this research is to estimate the effect of myopia correction and safety on reverse geometry contact lens fitting in school children. This research include 53(106eyes) schoolchildren among 7 to 18 years who has low to moderate myopia(-1.00D~-5.00D) and prescribed reverse geometry contact lens for purpose on orthokeratology between January to July 2004 and had 3months full follow up examination. They were tested for slit lamp examinations, BUT(Break up time), direct ophthalmoscopy, retinoscopy, uncorrected visual acuity, best corrected visual acuity, autorefraction, autokeratometry and corneal topography in each examination(1day, 1week, 2weeks, 1, 2, and 3months) of before-and-after lens wearing to find out the effect of myopic correction and side effect. The results came out as follow. The average of uncorrected visual acuity was $0.0938{\pm}0.378$ before lens wear and $0.3136{\pm}0.283$ after 1day lens wear, and there was fast improvement after 1week($0.7925{\pm}0.301$) and little improvement after 2weeks period but still they shows better uncorrected visual acuity(p<0.01). The result of this study, the reverse geometry lens is very useful to correct refractive error and control the progression of myopia temporally among low to moderate myopic patient. The side effects were relatively rare but further study should be necessary with long term lens wear effect on eye health. For the lens prescription, the clinical fitting process had higher rate of success with consideration of eccentricity and corneal topography.

• Journal of Korean Ophthalmic Optics Society
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.373-383
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• 2013

Purpose: In this study, we analyzed refractive power of school children in low income family. Methods: We have done a comparative analysis with 112 subjects of low-income of 17 elementary schools in the Yeongcheon area and low-income children less than -6 D of refractive errors from the Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey Report 2010. Results: Spherical equivalent (SE) with low-income group of nation was -1.99 D for right eye and -1.81 D for left eye, while high income group of nation showed -1.26 D and -1.21 D for right eye and left eye respectively. The SE with low income group in Yeongcheon area was -1.85 D for right eye and -1.81 D for left eye. The SE with orphan was -2.75 D and -2.42 D. Single parent family was -2.10 D and -1.96 D, and two parent family was -1.75 D and -1.73. Conclusions: The lack of attention to children eye care may be one of cause for myopia, so the role of the parents and teacher is very important. However, limited role of parents to children due to low income, it is necessary to provide an institutional strategy and social interest to prevent children vision' in low income family.