ERRORES REFRACTIVOS EN LOS ESTUDIANTES DE 5 A 12 AÑOS DE LA ESCUELA JULIA GONZALES BARBERAN DEL CANTÒN CHONE

Abstract

The visual system is considered one of the most important in the senses of the human being and fundamental for the social and intellectual environment that in turn allows us to know the world that surrounds us. Refractive errors not diagnosed in childhood are one of the causes for low school performance, this is due to the learning difficulty caused by the decrease in vision, the main objective of this research being to evaluate refractive errors in children of 5 years of age. 12 years of the Julia Gonzales Barberan Educational Unit of Chone Parish, the methodology was of descriptive, analytical and bibliographic type, with non-experimental design, the instrument of information collection was through Clinical Histories, the assessment of visual acuity with LogMAR optotype and training to teachers about the importance of realization of the visual examination and its influence on learning, the results were announced according to the prevalence of the students attended were emmetropic with a percentage of 75%, and within the refractive error with the highest prevalence was Astigmatism with a percentage of 13%, according to gender, girls have a percentage higher than 15%, unlike children with a lower percentage of 12% in the entire study sample. . With these data it is concluded that refractive errors are related to learning and it is very important to emphasize that the early detection of these refractive errors can prevent learning problems.