Socioeconomic mechanisms of myopia boom in China: a nationwide cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To assess the association between socioeconomic development and the myopia boom in China.

Design

Nationwide cross-sectional study.

Setting

We used data from the China Family Panel Study (CFPS 2010), and the Chinese National Survey on Students' Constitution and Health (CNSSCH 2010).

Participants

Participants included 33 600 individuals and 14 226 families from the CFPS 2010, and 86 199 students aged 7-12 years from the CNSSCH 2010.

Measures

The main measure was students' visual impairment (defined as Snellen visual acuity ≤20/25 (0.8) in the worse eye) rate of each province (or municipality or autonomous region); other measures included the Gini coefficient of property, logarithm of average property, Gini coefficient of education, average educa

SUBMITTER: Ma Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8211073 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature