%0 Journal Article
%T The prevalence of Amblyopia in a young Population
%A Abbasali Yekta
%A Amir Asharlous
%A Babak Ali
%A Hadi Ostadimoghaddam
%A Hassan Hashemi
%A Javad Heravian
%A Mehdi Khabazkhoob
%A Mohammad Saatchi
%J British Journal of Visual Impairment
%@ 1744-5809
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0264619618775768
%X The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of amblyopia and its determinants in Iranian students above 18£¿years. In this university-based cross-sectional study, multi-stage cluster sampling was used to select participants. After selecting the students, visual acuity, objective, and subjective refraction were measured and the best-corrected visual acuity was determined. We evaluated 1462 individuals with a mean age of 22.8£¿¡À£¿3.1£¿years in this study, of whom 73% were female. The prevalence of amblyopia was 2.19% (95% confidence interval [CI]: [1.43, 2.93]), of which 6.2% was strabismic, 71.8% was refractive (isometropic and anisometropic), and 22.0% was mix (strabismic and anisometropic). No difference was observed in the prevalence of amblyopia between boys and girls (p value£¿=£¿0.315). The prevalence of amblyopia was 3.93%, 1.71%, 3.79%, and 0% in the age group 18¨C20, 21¨C25, 26¨C30, and above 30£¿years, respectively (p value£¿=£¿0.071). The results of this study, as the first study investigating the prevalence of amblyopia in Iranian adults, showed a rather higher prevalence of amblyopia in Iranian university students compared to other studies on adults in other countries. Moreover, similar to some other studies, refractive amblyopia had a higher prevalence than other types
%K Amblyopia
%K cross-sectional study
%K students
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0264619618775768