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ABSTRACT
The aim of conducting this study was to determine the distribution of accommodative insufficiency and accommodative infacility in relation to demographic variables (age and sex). A total of two hundred and fifty-one (n=251) participants within the aged bracket 11-30 years with a mean age of 18.33 ± 5.338 comprising of both male (n=109) and female (n=142) were used for this study and participants were selected by a convenient sampling technique. Donder’s Push-Up method was employed using the Royal Armed Forces (RAF) rule to determine the Amplitude of Accommodation (AA) of the participants. The accommodative facility test was performed using the +2.00/-2.00 flipper. Among the 251 participants, 13 (5.2%) were found to have accommodative insufficiency whilst 73 (29.1%) had accommodative infacility. Of the people with accommodative insufficiency, 53.85% were females and 46.15% were males. 35.6% of the people with accommodative infacility were male and the remaining 64% were female. Data was analyzed using SPSS computer software version 23.0. With Chi square test, there was a statistically significant difference found among the age groups in relationship to accommodative insufficiency (p = 0.00) and accommodative infacility (p = 0.02). However, there was no established relationship between gender and accommodative insufficiency (p = 0.839) and accommodative infacility (p = 0.111). In conclusion, accommodative insufficiency and accommodative infacility were seen to be common among the lower age category which stresses the need for accommodative functions to be tested among young individuals.
