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 Volume 10, Issue 1 (January 2023), Pages: 1-6

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 Original Research Paper

 Computer vision syndrome in teachers of a university of the province of Lima

 Author(s): Brian Meneses-Claudio 1, *, Katherine Mantarí-Escobar 2, Waldemar Rios-Rios 1, Enrique Lee Huamani 3, Melissa Yauri-Machaca 4

 Affiliation(s):

 1Facultad de Negocios, Universidad Tecnológica del Perú, Lima, Peru
 2Dirección de Redes Integradas de Salud (DIRIS), Lima, Peru
 3Image Processing Research Laboratory (INTI-Lab), Universidad de Ciencias y Humanidades, Lima, Peru
 4Research and Technology Direction, Business on Making Technologies, Lima, Peru

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4550-4793

 Digital Object Identifier: 

 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2023.01.001

 Abstract:

Virtual education has generated consequences at the visual level of people during the coronavirus pandemic since spending more time on the computer, it compromises the eye health of the person causing long-term visual problems, so its research objective is to determine the computer-related ophthalmic syndrome in teachers at a university of the province of Lima. It is a quantitative, non-experimental, descriptive, and cross-sectional study, with a total population of sixty-three teachers who answered a digital survey with socio-demographic data and the Computer Vision Syndrome Questionnaire (CVS-Q) instrument. In the results, we can observe the results of the computerized ophthalmic syndrome in teachers at a university in the province of Lima, where 51 (81%) of the teachers do not present computer vision syndrome, and 12 (19%) present computer vision syndrome. In conclusion, the population conducting virtual education should be educated as well as students about prevention measures for computer ophthalmic syndrome and its consequences.

 © 2022 The Authors. Published by IASE.

 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: Eye health, Teacher, Education, Eye diseases

 Article History: Received 30 April 2022, Received in revised form 25 August 2022, Accepted 16 September 2022

 Acknowledgment 

No Acknowledgment.

 Compliance with ethical standards

 Conflict of interest: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

 Citation:

 Meneses-Claudio B, Mantarí-Escobar K, Rios-Rios W, Lee Huamani E, and Yauri-Machaca M (2023). Computer vision syndrome in teachers of a university of the province of Lima. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 10(1): 1-6

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