Development of a risk score for myopia: A cohort study conducted among school-aged children in China

• DOI: 10.4103/ijo.ijo_2077_23
• Publication Date: 2024-01-25T19:01:14Z
• Authors: Ziwei Shi; Lihua Yang; Ting Xu; Jing Jia; Song Yang; Bo Yang; Wei Yang; Changchun Yang; Yan Peng; Hong Gu; Caiping Liu; Sheng Wei
• Keywords: Ophthalmology; 03 medical and health sciences; 0302 clinical medicine; school-aged children; roc; Original Article; myopia; risk score; RE1-994

Purpose: To evaluate the myopia risk in school-aged children one year after lifting a pandemic-related lockdown and develop tool to identify high-risk groups. Methods: In total, 38,079 without from 38 schools were included. The outcomes incidence progression 1 COVID-19 was lifted, both obtained by spherical equivalent refraction (SER). We separated population into an exploratory (75%) validation sample (25%) construct score model. Results: 9811 (29.57%) students became myopic, overall 0.22 ± 0.62 D. Even less noted pre-myopia group at baseline (All: P = 0.045, Boy: 0.005). model included seven predictors: gender, grade, SER baseline, residence, parental myopia, eye discomfort symptoms, online courses. had range of 0–46 optimal cutoff 34. area under receiver operating curve 0.726 (0.719–0.732) for 0.731 (0.720–0.742) sample. Conclusions: can serve as practical classifying children.