Objective:To study the effect of 0.01% atropine on accommodation in myopic teenages.Methods:A prospective non-randomized controlled study was conducted.Sixty-one children (122 eyes) with low to moderate myopia were selected at the Second People's Hospital of Liaocheng from April 2015 to June 2018.Patients (aged 13-16 years old (average age,14.4±0.9 years) were divided into an atropine group (30 patients,60 eyes) and a control group (31 patients,62 eyes) according to the wishes of the guardians.Sodium hyaluronateeye drops were used once in the control group and the atropine group was treated once with 0.01% atropine eye drops.In the atropine group,near vision,accommodative amplitude and accommodative facility were measured at 2 h,4 h and 6 h after atropine treatment,and the same parameters were measured in the control group at 2 h and 6 h after treatment with sodium hyaluronate eye drops.The data were analyzed by repeated measures analysis of variance and a t-test.Results:The difference in near vision between the two groups and at the same time-points were not statistically significant (F=0.209,P=0.650;F=0.292,P=0.594) and there was no interaction between group and time (F=0.097,P=0.756).The accommodative amplitude of the atropine group was lower than that of the control group at 2 h after treatment and the difference was statistically significant (t=-13.09,P<0.001).The difference at 6 h after the atropine treatment was not statistically significant compared with sodium hyaluronate treatment (t=-0.26,P=0.797).In the atropine group,the accommodative amplitude at 2 h after treatment (10.09±0.69 D) was significantly lower than the baseline value (12.58±0.88 D) (P<0.001).At 4 h after treatment,the accommodative amplitude (10.98±0.77 D) was higher than that 2 h after treatment (P<0.001),and the difference between the baseline value (12.45±0.77 D) and 6 h after treatment was not statistically significant (P=0.911).The difference in accommodative facility between the two groups was not statistically significant at 2 h and 6 h after treatment.The accommodative facility at different time points in the atropine group was not statistically significant (F=0.09,P=0.965).Conclusions:After a single treatment with 0.01% atropine eye drops,the amplitude of accommodation decreases,but sufficient residual accommodation is retained without affecting near vision or accommodative facility.