Distribución de Defectos Refractivos Según las Características Sociodemográficas de la Población Pediátrica que Asistió a la Clínica de Optometría de la Universidad Santo Tomás Durante el Periodo 2017-2019

Abstract

The present research was carried out based on the type of quantitative descriptive observational cross-sectional study,that the research does not require follow-up but the analysis of medical records of pediatric patients treated in the optometry clinic of the Santo Tomás University in a defined time, the simple size is 163 medical records, in the same way,variables such as sociodemographic and clinical records were taken into account regarding the refractive defects of the children treated between the period 2017-2019. It was found that the gender most often is female with a percentage of (54.60%), taking into account the age was found the coefficient of kurtosis did not present a normal distribution, a median of 7 years was recorded. In the same way, it was evidenced that the socioeconomic stratum with the greatest presence of refractive defects was stratum two (40.49%). In the case of the refractive defect in the right eye, it was obtained that (48.46%) had compound hypermetropic astigmatism and (19.01%) mixed astigmatism. With respect to this same variable, but in the left eye (47.23%) had the same compound hypermetropic astigmatism, followed by mixed astigmatism in greater percentage with respect to the right eye being 23.31%. The refractive defect most often was compoundhypermetropic astigmatism in both eyes, followed by mixed astigmatism.