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<article-title>Correction: Eyecare health promotion in schools around the Free State Province, South Africa: school-based interventional study</article-title>
<alt-title alt-title-type="left-running-head">Nyathela et al.</alt-title>
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<institution>Discipline of Optometry, University of KwaZulu-Natal</institution>, <city>Durban</city>, <country country="ZA">South Africa</country>
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<label>&#x2a;</label>Correspondence: Xolani Nyathela, <email xlink:href="mailto:xolanin57@gmail.com">xolanin57@gmail.com</email>
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<related-article id="RA1" related-article-type="corrected-article" journal-id="Int. J. Public Health" journal-id-type="nlm-ta" xlink:href="10.3389/ijph.2026.1609229" ext-link-type="doi">A Correction on <article-title>Eyecare health promotion in schools around the Free State Province, South Africa: school-based interventional study</article-title> by Nyathela X, Nirghin U and Ebrahim Khan N (2026). Int. J. Public Health 71:1609229. doi: <object-id>10.3389/ijph.2026.1609229</object-id>
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<p>There was a mistake in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F1">Figure 1</xref> as published. &#x201C;Post-test&#x201d; was mistakenly written as &#x201C;pos- tes&#x201d; in both the Intervention and Control sections of the last blocks. The intervention&#x0027;s last block was missing the number of months &#x201C;6&#x201d;. The corrected <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F1">Figure 1</xref> appears below.</p>
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<p>Schematic presentation of the study (Free State, South Africa. 2025).</p>
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<alt-text content-type="machine-generated">Flowchart illustrating a research study in Thabo Mofutsanyane Educational District with twenty schools divided into ten experimental and ten control schools. The experimental group baseline included sixty-seven learners, fifty-two parents, and nine teachers, followed by an intervention using PowerPoint presentations, pamphlets, and posters, and a post-test after six months with forty learners, thirty-five parents, and eight teachers. The control group baseline had forty-two learners, twenty-one parents, and eight teachers, received no intervention, and the post-test after six months included twenty-six learners, nineteen parents, and eight teachers.</alt-text>
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<p>The original version of this article has been updated.</p>
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