Pilot Study: A Review of Personnel Involved in School Vision Screening and the Training Module in Betong, Malaysia
- Author:
Nurul Farhana AB
;
Chen AH
;
Abdul Rahim MN
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Vision, screening, primary schools, children, nurses, competency
- From:
The International Medical Journal Malaysia
2012;11(2):23-27
- CountryMalaysia
- Language:English
-
Abstract:
School vision screening program is a scheduled program under the Ministry of Health, Malaysia
for 7, 12 and 15 years-old children in the government schools. The aim of this study was to review the school
vision screening program from the perspective of the personnel involved as the screener. Methods: The
evaluation of the performance of the screener was based upon the accurate referrals' outcome from the
school health database of Betong Division in Sarawak, Malaysia in the year of 2008. Results: The total
accuracy of the referrals was 50.7%. Lower accuracy of the referrals was found significantly associated with
Grade 1 [χ2
(2.N=304) = 28.810, p<0.001, OR 4.472, CI.95= 0.843=2.335] and among Native Iban [χ2
(2.N=304) =
7.901, p<0.05, OR 1.502, CI.95= 0.935=2.414]. Conclusions: Further review on the training modules demanded
improvement and enhancement to suggest that training module might be one of the contributing factors
on the performance of the screener.
