Editorial: This Issue at A Glance

In this issue of IRJO Khabazkhoob and coauthors have presented “Validity of uncorrected visual acuity measured in vision screening programs for detecting refractive errors”. They have investigated 3,675 first year primary school children from seven cities of Iran through multistage cluster sampling. All students have uncorrected vision of 20/20. The authors found 1.14% of myopia, 8.07% of hyperopia, and 11.11% of astigmatism. They indicated that measurement of visual acuity alone is not sufficient for screening programs with many false negative results and cycloplegic refraction should be added to the programs to prevent any complication caused by refractive errors.