Prevalence of visual disturbances in patients who attended the Simulation Clinic of the Technical University of Manabí, Portoviejo-Ecuador in 2018

Abstract

The research seeks to determine the prevalence of pathologies, refractive defects and oculomotor alterations that patients presented in the area of Integral Optometry, at the Simulation Clinic of the Technical University of Manabí, Portoviejo-Ecuador, in 2018. Methodology: It was performed a retrospective descriptive study, where 452 patients were assessed in 2018, so the clinical records were reviewed to perform the statistical analysis. Results: The prevalence of refractive errors presents 61% with astigmatism (276/452); the prevalence of oculomotor alterations reaches 10% with insufficient accommodation (46/452), while the prevalence of ocular pathologies is 26% (127/452). Conclusions: The prevalence that was found when analyzing the files of the Integral Optometry area of the Simulation Clinic, indicate that astigmatism represents 61% of the 452 patients that were assessed during 2018, contradicting what was found in the literature.