EFFECT OF ONLINE LEARNING AND RECREATIONAL SCREEN TIME ON SCHOOL-GOING CHILDREN’S VISION DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: A REVIEW

Meenakumari Angom; Angom Sarjubala Devi

doi:10.29121/shodhkosh.v5.i2.2024.933

Authors

Meenakumari Angom Department of Mass Communication, Manipur University, India
Angom Sarjubala Devi Department of Mass Communication, Manipur University, Canchipur, Imphal, Manipur-795003

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29121/shodhkosh.v5.i2.2024.933

Keywords:

Digital Eye Syndrome, Incidence, Mobile Phones, Myopia

Abstract [English]

Mankind has faced a tremendous impact of the Covid-19 pandemic which has left us shattered, with many of us lost our near and dear ones. Among the numerous impacts felt, effect on vision of numerous school going children due to online classes and leisure screen time was an important one. In the present review it observed that usage of mobile phones was maximum with 44.57% followed by computers 26.85%, tablets 24.44% and televisions 4.14% during the pandemic. They spend 4.9hrd-1 during Covid-19 while it was 2.05hrd-1 before Covid-19, leading to increase incidence of Myopia in the age group of 6 -12 years and development of Computer Vision Syndrome in the >12 years old age group.

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