Causes of elimination due to eye problems during recruitment physical re-examination for first batch of junior school student aviation cadets

LIU Yanhong; BAO Li; GU Jiqiong; PAN Weien

Abstract：Objective To provide reference and offer recommendations for future physical examinations for selection of junior school student aviation cadets by analyzing the courses of elimination due to eye problems during the recruitment physical re-examination for the first-batch of junior school student aviation cadets. Methods By reviewing the records on elimination during the first recruitment physical re-examination for junior school student aviation cadets in Shandong and Henan Province in 2015, the number of teenagers eliminated and the types of diseases were recorded, while the elimination rate of eye diseases and composition ratio of eye diseases were calculated. Results There were a total of 1152 students subjected to the physical re-examination of ophthalmology, 461 of whom were eliminated, so the elimination rate was 40.02％. The top three courses of elimination were vision debility (14.41％), latent deviation (6.16％), and high diopter (4.43％). Other courses included retinal diseases (4.34％), lens diseases (3.56％), vitreous clouding (2.17％), corneal diseases (1.22％), macular diseases (0.87％), iris cyst (0.69％), color vision defects (0.52％), too large C/D (0.43％), ptosis (0.43％), orthokeratology lens (0.35％), persistent pupillary membrane (0.26％), and choroid defect (0.17％). Conclusion Substandard eyesight is the main cause of elimination during the recruitment physical re-examination for the first batch of junior school student aviation cadets,and the eye diseases responsible for elimination are varied and complicated, which deserves attention.