Korean J Aerosp Environ Med.  2001 Mar;11(1):32-35.

Relation of psychosocial stress, eye strain, and critical flicker fusion of VDT workers

• Lee CY

Abstract

To clarify that the psychosocial factors affect the eye strain of the VDT workers, self-reporting questionnaire about eye strain, critical flicker fusion(CFF), and 12-item version of General Health Questionnaire(GHQ) were carried out to 13 female VDT workers who have done the electronic editing and 10 female controls who were nurses in one hospital. The sum of eye symptoms of VDT workers were significantly higher than controls, but CFF of both groups were not different. And the sum of eye symptoms and CFF were not correlated. High stress group(sum of GHQ > 3) shows significantly more eye symptoms than low stress group. This result suggest that the psychosocial factors could affect the eye strain of VDT workers.

Keyword

eye strain; psychosocial stress; VDT syndrome; eye fatigue; word processing; graphic job; printing office

MeSH Terms

Asthenopia
Female
Flicker Fusion*
Humans
Psychology
Word Processing
Surveys and Questionnaires