1Borish Center for Ophthalmic Research, School of Optometry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
2Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Indian Council of Medical Research, National Institute of Cancer Prevention and Research, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
3Centre for Sight Eye Hospital, New Delhi, India
4Association for Social Health in India, New Delhi, India *neesingh@iu.edu
Supplemental Digital Content: The Appendix, available at http://links.lww.com/OPX/A390, is the 19-item questionnaire used to collect information on habits, lifestyle, and time spent during outdoor play and near-work in schoolchildren. The parents and children jointly answered the questionnaire. The response of this questionnaire was used to analyze the associated behavioral risk factors in children with and without myopia.
Submitted: January 16, 2018
Accepted: October 25, 2018
Funding/Support: Association for Social Health in India (Young Investigator Award; to NKS).
Conflict of Interest Disclosure: None of the authors have reported a financial conflict of interest.
Author Contributions and Acknowledgments: Conceptualization: NKS, RMJ, AY, SL; Data Curation: NKS, RMJ; Formal Analysis: NKS, SA, SL; Funding Acquisition: NKS, RMJ; Investigation: NKS, RK; Methodology: NKS, RMJ, AY, SA, SL; Project Administration: RMJ, AY; Software: SL; Supervision: AY, SA, SL; Validation: SA; Visualization: RMJ; Writing – Original Draft: NKS, RK; Writing – Review & Editing: NKS, RMJ, AY, SA, SL.
The authors thank Prof. Arthur Bradley, Indiana University School of Optometry, for suggestions in article revision.
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