Authorship:
Laura Guisasola, Ricard Tresserras, Anna Rius, Adriana López-Dóriga, Elisabeth Purtí

Publication date
Thu., 13/06/2013 – 12:00

Links
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Description

Targets. Analyze the distribution of visual problems causing and not causing visual impairment in a working population and its relationship with social class.

Methods: Cross-sectional study of a population of self-employed workers in Catalonia, aged 16 to 65, who underwent the health examination of the Asepeyo Prevention Society in 2009 (86,831 people, 59,397 men, 27,421 women) calculated the prevalence of visual problems causing and not causing visual impairment by age, sex and social class based on occupation and analyzed the relationships with logistic regression models.

Results: 2.2% (CI95% 2.1-2.3) of the working population studied, suffer from visual problems that cause visual impairment even with their usual correction. After adjusting for age, the risk of visual impairment is 2.4 times higher in class V workers than in class I.

Conclusions: The highest prevalences and risks of visual impairment affect women, elderly workers and the most disadvantaged social groups. Conversely, vision problems resolved with correction and not causing visual impairment are concentrated in non-manual workers.