1Assistant Professor, Department of Community Medicine, Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi
2Associate Professor, SMS&R, Sharda University, Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi
3Professor, Department of Community Medicine, Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi
4Director Professor, Department of Community Medicine, Vardhman Mahavir Medical College, New Delhi
5Director Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi
6Assistant Professor, Department of Community Medicine, SMS&R
Online published on 11 November, 2013.
To study the prevalence of ocular morbidities in children between 5 to 14 years in an urban resettlement colony of Delhi.
It is a community based cross-sectional study in Kalyanpuri, an urban resettlement colony and the urban field practice area of department of Community Medicine, Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi. A semi-structured, pre-tested questionnaire was prepared and filled by the principal investigator himself. A stratified random sample of 650 children using the proportionate allocation method was taken for the study. This was about 10% of the estimated children's population of the colony. Data was tabulated & analyzed using SPSS for windows software version 10.5.
25% of the study subjects were found to be suffering from some kind of ocular morbidity with 10.46% suffering from infectious & 15.69% from non-infectious disease.
School-age children, Resettlement colony, Ocular morbidity, Prevalence
