Caracterización Epidemiológica de la Ambliopía en Pacientes Pediátricos que Asisten a la Clínica de Optometría de la Universidad Santo Tomás Entre 2018 y 2022

Abstract

Epidemiologically characterize amblyopia in pediatric patients who attended the Santo Tomás University Optometry Clinic between 2018 and 2022. Cross-sectional descriptive observational quantitative study, in which a sample size of 115 participants will be chosen. They will be selected using a systematic probability sampling technique. Sociodemographic and clinical variables will be considered. It is intended to evaluate the clinical variables presented in pediatric patients with a diagnosis of amblyopia seen in the optometry clinic between the years 2018 and 2022. The prevalence of amblyopia in pediatric patients will be evaluated and presented. It was obtained as a result that, In the period between 2018 and 2022, 1330 pediatric patients were treated in pediatrics at the Santo Tomás University, 238 had a diagnosis of amblyopia according to CIE 10 (H530), from this, the result was that for every 100 pediatric patients treated 17.80% had amblyopia. The study population (116 participants) is made up of patients with an average age of 6.8 years, of which 48.28% (56 participants) were female. Of the total population under study, 75.86% presented a diagnosis of refractive amblyopia and of which in greater proportion there are southern isotropic refractive amblyopias. It was concluded that the prevalence of amblyopia in pediatric patients tends to be higher than that found in the literature, although it should be noted that since the Universidad Santo Tomás is an academy with a clinic open to the care of patients in the area of optometry, it is more common to find this type of alterations.