Journal Reviews

Information booklet for eye drop use

4 August 2021 | Eye drops, anxiety, children, parents, patient experience

On the basis that children may be more at ease and experience less discomfort and anxiety if provided with some control and choices, the authors developed an eye drop booklet in collaboration with children. This study describes the amount of...

Self refracting – child’s play?

1 February 2018 | | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive | China, children, conventional refraction, conventional spectacles, myopia, eady-made spectacles, rural refractionist, self-refraction, visual function

Uncorrected refractive error was the leading cause of vision impairment in the world in 2010. Although refractive error may be safely and effectively corrected with spectacles, lack of well-trained refractionists in settings of limited resources may be a major barrier....

Visual outcomes, visual fields and optical coherence tomography in paediatric craniopharyngioma

1 October 2015 | | EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology | Craniopharyngioma, ganglion cell colour map, optical coherence tomography, optic neuropathy children, visual field

This study reviews the visual outcomes of ten patients under the age of 18 years with craniopharyngioma. The paper also reviews the correlation between visual field (VF) testing and optical coherence tomography (OCT) examination and evaluates the role of OCT...