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    <journal-meta>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">JOHS</journal-id>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">Journ of Health Scien</journal-id>
      <journal-title-group>
        <journal-title>Journal of HealthCare Sciences</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">Journ of Health Scien</abbrev-journal-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn>
      <issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name>
      </publisher>
    </journal-meta>
    <article-meta>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">442</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">http://dx.doi.org/10.52533/JOHS.2025.51102</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"/>
      <article-categories>
        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Family Medicine</subject>
        </subj-group>
      </article-categories>
      <title-group>
        <article-title>Impact of Early Vision Screening in Primary School Children on Academic Performance&#13;
</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Magliah</surname>
            <given-names>Fisal Fahad</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Alfaraj</surname>
            <given-names>Rawan Saeed</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Alghamdi</surname>
            <given-names>Fares Hamoud</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Aldawsari</surname>
            <given-names>Nasser Ibrahim</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Alturki</surname>
            <given-names>Muna Muneer</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Zahhar</surname>
            <given-names>Jilan Ali</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Alkhowater</surname>
            <given-names>Abdulrahman Tariq</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <pub-date pub-type="ppub">
        <day>4</day>
        <month>11</month>
        <year>2025</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>5</volume>
      <issue>11</issue>
      <fpage>539</fpage>
      <lpage>546</lpage>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement>
        <copyright-year>2009</copyright-year>
        <license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">
          <license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p>
        </license>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <p>Children’s health significantly affects their academic performance in school. Various methods to measure academic performance are available, such as standardized achievement test scores. Visual health is a significant predictor of different academic outcomes. Thus, early vision screening can detect visual disorders, probably improving children’s academic performance. Vision screening can include various components, such as screening for amblyopia, visual acuity tests, and visual information processing tests. However, findings regarding the effectiveness of vision screening in improving academic performance in primary school children are inconsistent. This review aims to discuss the impact of early vision screening in primary school children on academic performance. Better visual health has been associated with better academic achievement. Children with bad academic performance had lower visual acuity and a longer near point of convergence. Vision screening can effectively detect refractive error, amblyopia, and other visual disorders; however, the direct effect of vision screening programs on academic outcomes remains inconclusive. Strengthening training, adopting standardized guidelines, and integrating evidence-based approaches are essential steps to enhance the reliability and impact of vision screening in primary school children.&#13;
</p>
      </abstract>
      <kwd-group>
        <kwd>Visual screening</kwd>
        <kwd> Academic performance</kwd>
        <kwd> Primary school</kwd>
        <kwd> Children</kwd>
        <kwd> Visual health</kwd>
      </kwd-group>
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