This study is accompolished in order to assess the types and frequency of refractive errors in 1000 cases of our outpatients of University eye clinic. This is a descriptive and cross sectional study.Data was collected from antorefractometer and added to questionaires prepared for each patient with respect to identification and history of them.Important finding of this study includes:- There is no significant difference between male and female, Patents- The most of the patients visited were in their second decade of life.- Nearly two third (2/3) of the patients have astigmatism and one forth (1/3) havehypermetropia and one third; have myopia.- Half of the Astigmats have with the rule and one third have against the rule and one seventh have oblique astigmatism.- Nearly 23% of bypermetropes and 11.5% of Myopics and 15.5% of astigmates have some kind of anisometropia and also anisome tropia is more frequent in first decade of life.- Nearly 11% of Myopes are high myopics.With this regard it goes without saying that education and periodic eye examination specially in first decade of life is very important for correction of refractive error and prevention of Amblyopic.
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دریافت: 1387/9/11 | پذیرش: 1379/9/25 | انتشار: 1379/9/25