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The vision protocol included personal medical history, ocular health evaluation, and clinical measures, such as visual acuity (VA), binocular vision, colour vision, refractive error, and intraocular pressure. This protocol was administered to 134 subjects. Results: Half of the subjects reported that they had never attended or they did not remember having attended a previous eye exam. Additionally, 10% of them had not attended an eye exam in the immediate past three years. Half the subjects failed the VA test and 13% presented moderate Visual Impairment (VI) (VA worse than 0.5 logMAR in the best eye). Manifest ocular deviation was found in 25% of the subjects and the most common ocular health dysfunction conditions were conjunctiva hyperaemia, meibomian gland dysfunction, and lens anomalies. Refractive error correction allowed a reduction in the level of moderate VI to 3.7%. Conclusions: The population analysed showed a poor eye care attendance rate and vision-related conditions are in agreement with previous reports. The development of national strategies to promote the awareness for routine eye care in people with ID and improving accessibility to eye care services may mitigate many of the most prevalent conditions encountered.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijerph17217715","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,10,22]],"date-time":"2020-10-22T10:27:58Z","timestamp":1603362478000},"page":"7715","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Visual Status in a Portuguese Population with Intellectual Disability"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"17","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0471-0213","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Pedro","family":"Serra","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Instituto Superior de Educa\u00e7\u00e3o e Ci\u00eancias, Alameda das Linhas de Torres, 1750-142 Lisboa, Portugal"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Regina","family":"Costa","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Novas Olimpiadas Especiais\u2014Special Olympics Portugal, Rua S\u00edtio do Casalinho da Ajuda, 1300-536 Lisboa, Portugal"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Nuno","family":"Almeida","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Opening Eyes Portugal\u2014Special Olympics Portugal, Rua S\u00edtio do Casalinho da Ajuda, 1300-536 Lisboa, Portugal"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7304-8756","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ant\u00f3nio","family":"Baptista","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centre of Physics, Campus Gualtar, School of Sciences, University of Minho, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,10,22]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"104","DOI":"10.1007\/s40474-016-0085-7","article-title":"Systematic Review of the Prevalence and Incidence of Intellectual Disabilities: Current Trends and Issues","volume":"3","author":"McKenzie","year":"2016","journal-title":"Curr. 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