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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the prevalence of computer vision syndrome among medical students in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
PURPOSE: To estimate the prevalence of computer vision syndrome (CVS) among university medical students in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, after establishing remote learning during COVID-19 pandemic and to compare settings of electronic device usage and patterns of CVS protective measures applied by students...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9510156/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36153429 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10792-022-02525-w |
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author | Almousa, Abdullah N. Aldofyan, Munirah Z. Kokandi, Bushra A. Alsubki, Haneen E. Alqahtani, Rawan S. Gikandi, Priscilla Alghaihb, Shatha G. |
author_facet | Almousa, Abdullah N. Aldofyan, Munirah Z. Kokandi, Bushra A. Alsubki, Haneen E. Alqahtani, Rawan S. Gikandi, Priscilla Alghaihb, Shatha G. |
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description | PURPOSE: To estimate the prevalence of computer vision syndrome (CVS) among university medical students in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, after establishing remote learning during COVID-19 pandemic and to compare settings of electronic device usage and patterns of CVS protective measures applied by students before and during this pandemic. METHODS: This is an observational descriptive cross-sectional study which included 1st to 5th year medical students who were actively enrolled at the governmental colleges of medicine in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, during the COVID-19 lockdown. The sample size was estimated to be 287 medical students. Participants were asked to volunteer and fill an electronic online questionnaire. RESULTS: A total of 300 medical students were included in this study. 94.0% reported at least one symptom of CVS, while 67% reported having more than three symptoms. The most frequently reported symptoms were musculoskeletal pain (84.3%), headache (71.1%) and dry eyes (68%). Thirty-eight percent of the students experienced more severe symptoms, while 48% experienced more frequent symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic. Risk factors for having three or more symptoms were being a female (p < 0.001) and using electronic devices for longer periods (6.8 h ± 2.8) during COVID-19 lockdown (p < 0.001). CONCLUSION: CVS prevalence during COVID-19 era among medical students is high. This necessitates increasing the awareness of CVS and its preventive measures. |
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spelling | pubmed-95101562022-09-26 The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the prevalence of computer vision syndrome among medical students in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Almousa, Abdullah N. Aldofyan, Munirah Z. Kokandi, Bushra A. Alsubki, Haneen E. Alqahtani, Rawan S. Gikandi, Priscilla Alghaihb, Shatha G. Int Ophthalmol Original Paper PURPOSE: To estimate the prevalence of computer vision syndrome (CVS) among university medical students in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, after establishing remote learning during COVID-19 pandemic and to compare settings of electronic device usage and patterns of CVS protective measures applied by students before and during this pandemic. METHODS: This is an observational descriptive cross-sectional study which included 1st to 5th year medical students who were actively enrolled at the governmental colleges of medicine in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, during the COVID-19 lockdown. The sample size was estimated to be 287 medical students. Participants were asked to volunteer and fill an electronic online questionnaire. RESULTS: A total of 300 medical students were included in this study. 94.0% reported at least one symptom of CVS, while 67% reported having more than three symptoms. The most frequently reported symptoms were musculoskeletal pain (84.3%), headache (71.1%) and dry eyes (68%). Thirty-eight percent of the students experienced more severe symptoms, while 48% experienced more frequent symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic. Risk factors for having three or more symptoms were being a female (p < 0.001) and using electronic devices for longer periods (6.8 h ± 2.8) during COVID-19 lockdown (p < 0.001). CONCLUSION: CVS prevalence during COVID-19 era among medical students is high. This necessitates increasing the awareness of CVS and its preventive measures. Springer Netherlands 2022-09-24 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC9510156/ /pubmed/36153429 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10792-022-02525-w Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. 2022, Springer Nature or its licensor holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law. This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Original Paper Almousa, Abdullah N. Aldofyan, Munirah Z. Kokandi, Bushra A. Alsubki, Haneen E. Alqahtani, Rawan S. Gikandi, Priscilla Alghaihb, Shatha G. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the prevalence of computer vision syndrome among medical students in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
title | The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the prevalence of computer vision syndrome among medical students in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
title_full | The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the prevalence of computer vision syndrome among medical students in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
title_fullStr | The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the prevalence of computer vision syndrome among medical students in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
title_full_unstemmed | The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the prevalence of computer vision syndrome among medical students in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
title_short | The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the prevalence of computer vision syndrome among medical students in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
title_sort | impact of the covid-19 pandemic on the prevalence of computer vision syndrome among medical students in riyadh, saudi arabia |
topic | Original Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9510156/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36153429 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10792-022-02525-w |
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