Factors influencing amblyopia rehabilitation in occlusive therapy
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Compliance with eye patching revealed that 72% of parents were achieving orthoptist recommendations to patch their child. In 28% of cases visual acuity didn’t raise any line. There is a positive mild correlation (kappa = 0,536) between the Orthoptist’s recommendations and parental perception of these recommendations. The logistic binary model was used to estimate the odds ratio for each factor. The criteria enter was used to select the variables for the model. The parameters significance was tested with the Wald test. ∧ OR
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