Table 2 Racial and ethnic disparities in best-corrected visual acuity worse than 20/30 (logMAR > 0.2).

From: Area Deprivation and Social Vulnerability Are Associated with Pediatric Vision Screening Outcomes in the University of California, Irvine EyeMobile Program

Race/ Ethnicity

ADI Q1 (n = 25)

ADI Q2 (n = 20)

ADI Q3 (n = 115)

ADI Q4 (n = 228)

Total Eyes (n = 388)

p (chi-square)

p (trend)

SVI Q1 (n = 48)

SVI Q2 (n = 72)

SVI Q3 (n = 114)

SVI Q4 (n = 154)

Total Eyes (n = 388)

p (chi-square)

p (trend)

Hispanic

8 (32.0%)

7 (35.0%)

60 (52.2%)

145 (63.6%)

220 (56.7%)

<0.001

<0.001

18 (37.5%)

30 (41.7%)

67 (58.8%)

91 (59.1%)

206 (53.1%)

<0.001

<0.001

Caucasian

7 (28.0%)

5 (25.0%)

25 (21.7%)

45 (19.7%)

82 (21.1%)

0.001

0.004

15 (31.3%)

20 (27.8%)

22 (19.3%)

25 (16.2%)

82 (21.1%)

0.002

0.005

Asian

4 (16.0%)

3 (15.0%)

16 (13.9%)

22 (9.7%)

45 (11.6%)

0.021

0.038

6 (12.5%)

8 (11.1%)

11 (9.6%)

16 (10.4%)

41 (10.6%)

0.015

0.031

African American

3 (12.0%)

3 (15.0%)

8 (7.0%)

10 (4.4%)

24 (6.2%)

0.217

0.111

4 (8.3%)

7 (9.7%)

6 (5.3%)

13 (8.4%)

30 (7.7%)

0.190

0.105

Middle Eastern

3 (12.0%)

2 (10.0%)

6 (5.2%)

6 (2.6%)

17 (4.4%)

0.307

0.167

5 (10.4%)

7 (9.7%)

8 (7.0%)

9 (5.8%)

29 (7.5%)

0.312

0.171

  1. This table presents the distribution of eyes with best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) worse than 20/30 across quartiles of the Area Deprivation Index (ADI) and Social Vulnerability Index (SVI), stratified by race and ethnicity. Each row represents a racial or ethnic group, with values reported as the number and percentage of affected eyes within each ADI and SVI quartile. Analyses were conducted at the eye level among eyes with available best-corrected visual acuity measurements (total eyes with poor BCVA = 388). Chi-square tests were used to assess overall differences across quartiles and Cochran–Armitage trend tests were used to evaluate directional trends.
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