The Affiliated Eye Hospital, School of Ophthalmology and Optometry, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China.
Centre for Public Health, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, Belfast, UK.
BMJ Open. 2020 Apr 16;10(4):e030956. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-030956.
To investigate the validity and feasibility of a self-administered home vision examination programme in China.
Cross-sectional study.
Yueqing, China.
A two-stage convenience sampling procedure was used to randomly select 600 households from 30 communities participating in the Yueqing Eye Study (YES). The aim of YES is to encourage home-based vision screening, reporting of visual acuity (VA) annually through social media and encouraging people to attend follow-up clinic appointments as a way to improve eye care access for adults with VA ≤+0.5 log of the minimum angle of resolution (logMAR).
Household screeners (one per household) who tested other family members' VA completed a questionnaire on family structure, demographic information and knowledge about screening procedures. Other family members then underwent confirmatory VA testing by researchers.
The completion rate of home-based VA screening, its sensitivity and specificity were used to evaluate validity. Factors that determined whether families participated in the self-VA screening were used to evaluate feasibility.
345 (66%) of the 523 (87.2%) households with valid data form their home-based vision examinations also were retested by researchers. There was no statistically significant difference in scores on the family-administerd or researcher-administerd VA test (VA≤+0.5 logMAR, p=0.607; VA >+0.5 logMAR, p=0.612). The sensitivity and specificity of home-based vision screening were 80.5% (95% CI 70.2% to 86.9%) and 95.1% (95% CI 92.6% to 96.8%), respectively. 14.7% (77/523) of tested respondents had VA ≤+0.5 logMAR. Predictors of performing home screening for VA remaining in regression models included higher economic status ('fair and above' vs 'poor': OR 1.74; 95% CI 1.08 to 2.76; p=0.022), age (<45 years vs ≥45 years: OR 0.46; 95% CI 0.25 to 0.85; p=0.014) and living in a nuclear (OR 5.17; 95% CI 2.86 to 9.36; p<0.001) or extended family (OR 8.37; 95% CI 4.93 to 14.20; p<0.001).
Self-administered home vision screening is reliable and highly accepted by Chinese adults.
在中国研究自我管理家庭视力检查方案的有效性和可行性。
横断面研究。
中国乐清。
采用两阶段便利抽样程序,从参与乐清眼研究(YES)的 30 个社区中随机抽取 600 户家庭。YES 的目的是鼓励家庭进行视力筛查,通过社交媒体每年报告视力(VA),并鼓励人们参加随访诊所预约,以改善成年人 VA≤+0.5 对数最小角分辨率(logMAR)的眼保健服务获取。
对测试其他家庭成员 VA 的家庭筛查员(每户一名)完成了一份关于家庭结构、人口统计学信息和筛查程序知识的问卷。然后,其他家庭成员由研究人员进行确认性 VA 测试。
在 523 个(87.2%)有有效数据的家庭中,有 345 个(66%)家庭进行了基于家庭的 VA 筛查,并且也接受了研究人员的复查。家庭管理或研究人员管理的 VA 测试的得分没有统计学上的显著差异(VA≤+0.5 logMAR,p=0.607;VA >+0.5 logMAR,p=0.612)。家庭视力筛查的敏感性和特异性分别为 80.5%(95%CI 70.2%至 86.9%)和 95.1%(95%CI 92.6%至 96.8%)。在接受测试的受访者中,有 14.7%(77/523)的 VA≤+0.5 logMAR。回归模型中进行 VA 家庭筛查的预测因素包括较高的经济地位(“好”和“很好”与“差”:OR 1.74;95%CI 1.08 至 2.76;p=0.022)、年龄(<45 岁与≥45 岁:OR 0.46;95%CI 0.25 至 0.85;p=0.014)和居住在核心(OR 5.17;95%CI 2.86 至 9.36;p<0.001)或扩展家庭(OR 8.37;95%CI 4.93 至 14.20;p<0.001)。
自我管理的家庭视力筛查是可靠的,并且深受中国成年人的欢迎。