Факторы, способствующие формированию миопии у школьников

The paper analyzes the style and quality of life (QL) in schoolchildren with myopia versus healthy persons of the same age. Their lifestyle was studied through a sociological survey, by using the specially developed questionnaire; their life quality was examined according to the special questionnaire PedsQL (variants for a child/an adolescent and parents) validated and adapted to Russia. The study established that QL in children and adolescents with myopia was comparable with that of healthy persons of the same age. Myopia began to affect QL in adolescents only at the age of 13 years, which was especially obvious in terms of emotional and school well-being. Their parents were found to be inclined to reduce the QL of their children. Contradictions in the assessment of QL by children with visual impairment and by their parents diminished with a schoolchild ’s age; by contrast, they increased in the group of healthy respondents.