Visual Fatigue and Computer Use Among College Students

Abstract

. Refractive errors especially myopia, have been increasingly becoming common with increase in close-up work being cited as one of the reasons. Video terminals are everyday accessories in modern life and computer usage is even part of education these days. Asthenopia (visual fatigue) has been proven to be an occupational hazard for people working on Video Display Terminals (VDT) and such work often leads to temporary myopia (myopization) in a remarkable percentage of operators