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Assessment of visual acuity in children using crowded Lea symbol charts

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posted on 2023-08-30, 15:22 authored by Ananth Sailoganathan, Leong Xin Rou, Kenny Buja, John Siderov
Purpose: To compare habitual visual acuity in a sample of young children using two versions of the single Lea symbols charts with different crowding features. Methods: Monocular habitual visual acuity was measured in a sample of 77 young children aged between 4 and 6 years using crowded Lea Symbols charts with either flanking bars separated from the central symbol by 0.5 optotype width or flanking Lea optotypes separated from the central symbol by 1.0 optotype width. Results: Mean visual acuity was higher (i.e. lower logMAR) with the Lea symbols crowded using flanking optotypes, equivalent to about 1.5 optotype difference. Visual acuity measured with the 2 charts was significantly correlated; however, the 95% limits of agreement were larger than expected from repeatability studies using Lea symbols. Conclusions. Lea symbols with flanking optotypes resulted in higher visual acuity than the Lea symbols with flanking bars, probably as a result of differences in the crowding effect. The two charts showed insufficient agreement and we do not recommend their use interchangeably. We recommend using the Lea symbols with flanking bars because of the closer flanker-target separation.

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Refereed

  • Yes

Volume

95

Issue number

8

Page range

643-647

Publication title

Optometry and Vision Science

ISSN

1538-9235

Publisher

American Academy of Optometry

File version

  • Accepted version

Language

  • eng

Legacy posted date

2018-06-13

Legacy creation date

2018-06-12

Legacy Faculty/School/Department

ARCHIVED Faculty of Science & Technology (until September 2018)

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