PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Zhuoting Zhu AU - Yanxian Chen AU - Zachary Tan AU - Ruilin Xiong AU - Myra Beth McGuinness AU - Andreas Müller TI - Interventions recommended for myopia prevention and control among children and adolescents in China: a systematic review AID - 10.1136/bjophthalmol-2021-319306 DP - 2023 Feb 01 TA - British Journal of Ophthalmology PG - 160--166 VI - 107 IP - 2 4099 - http://bjo.bmj.com/content/107/2/160.short 4100 - http://bjo.bmj.com/content/107/2/160.full SO - Br J Ophthalmol2023 Feb 01; 107 AB - In 2018, a consortium of government bodies in China led by the Ministry of Education released the Comprehensive Plan to Prevent Nearsightedness among Children and Teenagers (CPPNCT), aiming to reduce the incidence of myopia and control myopic progression in China. Recommendations span from home-based to school-based interventions, including time outdoors, physical activity, light exposure, near-work activity, screen time, Chinese eye exercises, diet and sleep. To date, the levels of evidence for this suite of interventions have not been thoroughly investigated. This review has summarised the evidence of the interventions recommended by the CPPNCT in myopia prevention and control. Thus, the following statements are supposed by the evidence: (1) Increasing time outdoors and reducing near-work time are effective in lowering incident myopia in school-aged children. (2) All interventions have a limited effect on myopia progression. Ongoing research may lead to a better understanding of the underlying mechanisms of myopia development, the interaction of different interventions and recommendations, confounding variables and their true effect on myopia prevention, and the identification of those most likely to respond to specific interventions. This field may also benefit from longer-term studies of the various interventions or strategies covered within this review article, to better understand the persistence of treatment effects over time and explore more novel approaches to myopia control.