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Implementing paediatric vision screening in urban and rural areas in Cluj county, Romania
RESULTS
Screening personnel and training
Five courses for screeners were held in October and November 2017 and March and October 2018. Altogether, the courses were attended by 233 persons (154 nurses and 79 doctors). All passed the concluding certified test, but only 97 (42%) screened children. This was largely because all but one of the doctors did not screen children (figure 1). It was, however, considered useful for doctors to attend the course, even when nurses were to screen the children, so they could supervise the screening.
The majority of nurses from the cities who followed the course, also went on to screen children. From the city of Cluj-Napoca, 72 nurses attended the course, 49 (68%) of whom screened children (figure 2). From the small cities, 31 nurses followed the
Figure 1: numbers indicate the number of eligible children in 253 2018 per commune or city; shades represent communes and cities where nurses followed or did not follow the course and did or did not screen children.
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