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Spectacle compliance among teenagers—meaning consistent wearing of prescribed glasses—is a persistent challenge that significantly impacts both visual health and educational engagement in this age group. While spectacle correction for refractive errors like myopia and astigmatism is highly effective, actual use rates among teenagers are consistently suboptimal across global settings[1][2][3]. Epidemiology and Prevalence Studies consistently reveal low to moderate rates of spectacle compliance across diverse settings. For example, in rural India, only about 29.5% of secondary schoolchildren who received free spectacles were wearing them 6–12 months later[1]. In Mexico, rates are even lower, with only 13.4% of children observed wearing spectacles at follow-up[2]. Botswana, by contrast, demonstrated higher compliance, with 60.1% of children wearing their spectacles after 3–4 months, yet older teenagers and boys were less likely to be compliant[3]. Systematic review evidence places the poo