Muhammad Asif¹, Mehak²*, Zubaida Wahid², Manail Arif², Mahnoor Sattar², Ziyad Tagrani², Izmal Urooj³, Muhammad Atif Nisar⁴ and Beenish Atif⁵

¹Senior Lecturer, Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Dow University Health Science, Karachi, Pakistan
²Internee, Pediatric Department, Al-Ibrahim Eye Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan
³Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Dow University Health Science, Karachi, Pakistan
⁴Family Physician, Sina Health Clinics, Karachi, Pakistan
⁵General Physician, PPHI, DHA, Karachi, Pakistan

*Corresponding Author: Mehak Nazir, MS-Public Health, Senior Lecturer, Isra School of Optometry, Al-Ibrahim Eye Hospital, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.

Received: July 24, 2023; Published: August 11, 2023

Abstract

Parental myopia is defined as having refractive error of distance by child’s biological parents and childhood myopia is defined as having refractive error for distance which usually develops during childhood.

Objective: To evaluate the association of maternal and paternal with degree of myopia.

Methods: This cross-sectional study, total sample size was 300 patients from the age group of 0-15 years were selected by non-probability (purposive sampling). Cycloplegic and dry refraction has been done on patients. The all data were analyzed through SPSS software version 20.

Results: The frequency of myopia was 124 (41.3%) in male and 176 (58.7%) in female. Among the age group from 0-15 years, the highest grade of myopia involvement from age group was 11-15 years’ category 155 (51.8%). According to the parental history involvement, maternal history of myopia was on highest ratio of 100(33.3%) The association of paternal myopia with the degree of childhood myopia was found to be non-significant; with P-value is 0.266.

Conclusion: The results of this study showed that progression of myopia is greater in females, in age group from (11-15) years and in positive maternal history of myopia. Therefore, early detection and management of myopia can reduce the frequency and progression of myopia among female and children.

 Keywords: Refractive Error; Maternal Myopia and Paternal Myopia

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Citation

Citation: Mehak., et al. “Association of Parental Myopia with Childhood Myopia".Acta Scientific Ophthalmology 6.9 (2023): 23-26.

Copyright

Copyright: © 2023 Mehak., et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.