Xiangui He, Padmaja Sankaridurg, Jingjing Wang, Jun Chen, Thomas Naduvilath, Mingguang He, Zhuoting Zhu, Wayne Li, Ian G Morgan, Shuyu Xiong, Jianfeng Zhu, Haidong Zou, Kathryn A Rose, Bo Zhang, Rebecca Weng, Serge Resnikoff, Xun Xu
PURPOSE: To evaluate the efficacy of time outdoors per school day over 2 years on myopia onset and shift. DESIGN: A prospective, cluster-randomized, examiner-masked, three-arm trial. PARTICIPANTS: A total of 6295 students aged 6 to 9 years from 24 primary schools in Shanghai, China, stratified and randomized by school in a 1:1:1 ratio to control (n=2037), test I (n=2329), or test II (n=1929) group. METHODS: An additional 40 or 80-minutes of outdoor time was allocated to each school day for test I and II groups...
June 29, 2022: Ophthalmology