The first experience of parallel measurements of objective accommodation parameters in children with myopia using various instruments: in search of a common denominator

Purpose: to study the relationship between the parameters of reflex and tonic accommodation measured using various objective methods.Material and methods. A comprehensive parallel study of objective accommodation parameters of 57 children (114 eyes) with low and moderate myopia (average -2.6 ± 1.4 D) aged from 8 to 12 years (average 9.9 ± 1.6 years) was carried out on three devices: Grand Seiko WAM-5500K, Acomoref 2 K-model Righton; TONOREF III, Nidek.Results. Both coincidences and differences of the indicators obtained by different methods as well as their correlations were revealed: positive - between the values of AR in the open field and in the virtual space (r = 0.23, r = 0.2); between the virtual responses to Righton K-2 and Nidek (r = 0.38); direct correlations of the accommodation response with accommodation tones. A correlation of average strength (r = 0.44) was found between the HAT on the Grand Seiko WR-5100K and the CMF on the Righton K2, which allows us to consider them as synonymous indicators. A negative relationship of CMF with PRA and SE refraction was found. A positive correlation of CMF with the rate of progression of myopia and a negative one with PRA suggests that a high CMF is a bad prognostic sign. However, CMF positively correlates with the magnitude of the accommodative response on all three devices. In this case, it turns out that an increase in CMF accompanies an increase in the amplitude of accommodation and, therefore, is not always a troublesome factor. Perhaps we are dealing with the limits of the norm for this indicator, which still need to be studied.Conclusion. With the help of objective methods of studying qualitatively different characteristics of one process, it is possible to investigate the actual and prognostic parameters of accommodation, which will allow us to offer an individualized approach to the treatment of patients with myopia using optical and drug instruments.