Computer Vision Syndrome in Visual Display Terminal users (VDT).

Introduction : The digital screen has become a part of the everyday life at present which is a common item now-a-days in offices, colleges, universities and home This has led to an increase in number of patients complaining of ocular symptoms. Objective: To assess Computer Vision Syndrome in Visual Display Terminal users (VDT) Material and method: In a cross sectional, questionnaire survey study, data was collected to identify the impact of digital screen on Visual Display Terminal users. Sample was selected by simple random sampling and Data was appropriately analyzed using spss version 21. Result : A total of 144 subjects with mean age of 27.73 ± 4.88 years old (range 18-35 years). Of all these 94 (65.28%) were having CVS where mean score of CVS was 7.50±5.86. Out of that 65.95% of male and 34.04% of female were having CVS. 34 subjects were using Visual Display Terminal for 4-6 hours per day, 63 subjects were using Visual Display Terminal for 7-10 hour per day and 47 subjects were using Visual Display Terminals for more than 10 hours per day. According to pearson correlation coefficient there was no significant association between computer vision syndrome with number of hours working on computer per day(+0.048;p=0.567) Conclusion : The present study revealed 65.28% of the subjects were affected with Visual Display Terminals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]