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- Correcting Myopia Among Secondary School Children to Increase Academic High School Attendance Rates in Rural Communities — Active Not Recruiting • Non-phase study • Mental Health / Psychiatry • NCT04077086.
- Free glasses with teacher support increases academic high school attendance among short-sighted rural Chinese secondary school students.
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What This Trial Is Studying
Chinese children are some of the most short-sighted in the world, but only one in five children in poor areas who needs glasses has them. Our team has already shown in other trials that giving children free glasses leads to better grades and that free glasses have a bigger impact on grades than factors like parents' education level and the amount of money a family has. The effect on grades from glasses is greater than from other health services in school, like giving vitamins. Only about one in three children…