Al Daajani Manal Matar, Al-Habib Dina Mohammed, Ibrahim Mona Hamed, Al Shewear Nora Abdulrhman, Fagihi Yahya Mohammad, Alzaher Abrar Abdulazeem, Alfaleh Amjad Fawzi, Alabdulkareem Khaled Ibrahim
Public Health Department, Health Affairs, Jeddah 22246, Saudi Arabia.
General Administration of School Health, Ministry of Health, Riyadh 11176, Saudi Arabia.
Healthcare (Basel). 2021 Sep 30;9(10):1310. doi: 10.3390/healthcare9101310.
The Saudi Ministry of Health (MOH) established a National School-Based Screening Program (NSBSP) for health screening of schoolchildren. Students from specific grades were systematically screened for several health problems, including obesity, visual and auditory problems, dental cavities, scoliosis, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). This cross-sectional study aimed to determine the prevalence of these health problems among primary school students based on secondary data obtained from the NSBSP. We included 444,259 screened school children from the first and fourth grades of 50% of the selected schools (both private and public) across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) during the academic year 2018-2019. Among them, the most prevalent health problems identified were dental cavities (38.7%), eye refractory errors (10.9%), and overweight and obesity (10.5%); the less prevalent problems included ADHD (2.81%), auditory problems (0.6%), and scoliosis (0.48%). A greater prevalence of most health problems was observed in girls more than boys. The NSBSP successfully aided the detection of health conditions with high and low prevalence among primary school students in the KSA, and thus, the identification of health problems of specific concern. Implementation of effective school health services for the prevention, early detection, diagnosis, and treatment of these health problems are imperative.
沙特阿拉伯卫生部(MOH)设立了一项针对学童健康筛查的全国性校本筛查计划(NSBSP)。对特定年级的学生系统地筛查了若干健康问题,包括肥胖、视觉和听觉问题、龋齿、脊柱侧弯以及注意力缺陷多动障碍(ADHD)。这项横断面研究旨在根据从NSBSP获得的二手数据确定这些健康问题在小学生中的患病率。我们纳入了2018 - 2019学年沙特阿拉伯王国(KSA)50%选定学校(包括私立和公立)一、四年级的444,259名接受筛查的学童。其中,已确定的最普遍健康问题是龋齿(38.7%)、屈光不正(10.9%)以及超重和肥胖(10.5%);较不普遍的问题包括ADHD(2.81%)、听觉问题(0.6%)和脊柱侧弯(0.48%)。观察到大多数健康问题在女孩中的患病率高于男孩。NSBSP成功地帮助检测了KSA小学生中高患病率和低患病率的健康状况,从而确定了需要特别关注的健康问题。必须实施有效的学校健康服务以预防、早期发现、诊断和治疗这些健康问题。
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