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 Volume 10, Issue 3 (March 2023), Pages: 60-65

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 Short Communication

Vision syndrome due to the use of computers and psychological impact on teachers at a university in the province of Cañete

 Author(s): 

 Yrene Uribe-Hernandez *, Filiberto Ochoa-Paredes, Hugo Moran-Requena, Alex Pacheco-Pumaleque

 Affiliation(s):

 Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales, Universidad Nacional de Cañete, Lima, Peru

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5893-9262

 Digital Object Identifier: 

 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2023.03.008

 Abstract:

Digital education has had consequences on the visual health of teachers and students during the pandemic generating a negative psychological impact, since being so long on the computer generates visual expenditure and therefore the person could present long-term visual problems, so the objective of the research is to determine the syndrome of vision by the use of computers and psychological impact in teachers of a University of the province of Cañete. It is a quantitative, descriptive, correlational, and cross-sectional study, with a total population of 98 teachers providing them with a digital survey with sociodemographic aspects, the Computer Vision Syndrome Questionnaire and the depression, anxiety, and stress scale. In their results, it was observed that 64% (n=57) of teachers have a low level of vision syndrome and a high level of psychological impact. To conclude, it is necessary to take into account the advice to teachers and students on prevention measures on the complications of being on the computer and their 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: Teachers, Education, Eye health, Pandemic, Coronavirus, Depression, Anxiety, Stress

 Article History: Received 25 July 2022, Received in revised form 9 November 2022, Accepted 2 December 2022

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No Acknowledgment.

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 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:

 Uribe-Hernandez Y, Ochoa-Paredes F, Moran-Requena H, and Pacheco-Pumaleque A (2023). Vision syndrome due to the use of computers and psychological impact on teachers at a university in the province of Cañete. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 10(3): 60-65

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