Influence of Vision on Educational Performance: A Multivariate Analysis

(1) Background: According to the World Report on Vision published by WHO, 123.7 million people around world have vision impairment due uncorrected refractive errors. affects many aspects of our lives, and it is related low academic performance; (2) Methods: A prospective multicenter study has been carried out in 1400 optical centers Spain. visual screening was optometrists children aged between 6 12; (3) Results: 6673 primary school checked. The multivariate analysis reveals that 5.2% poor performance vision. Poor independent significantly affected sex, age, near vision, hyperopia, binocular dysfunctions, bad ocular motility; (4) Conclusions: plays a key role optimum consequently, early detection errors other problems essential improve schoolchildren.