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Prevalence of dry eye in college students at Uparwara community in Raipur

Background The study aims to investigate the prevalence of dry eye in college students in the Uparwara community.

Methods This pilot study was conducted tenure to declaration of Helsinki rules with n=240 (males 200 and females 40) with in the age group of 18-25 years, OSDI questionnaire was used to assess the prevalence among the college students of Uparwara community at Raipur.

Results Data from 240 subjects were analyzed with a mean age group of 19.41±0.70 mean±SD. This OSDI questionnaire study with subscales for dry eye symptoms were measured in both the genders males 213 (89%), females 27 (11%). The percentage distributions among the subjects showed that 116 (48.3%) participants reported dry eye symptoms and 124 (51.6%) was normal.

Conclusions This study emphasized on the prolonged usage of VDT and electronic devices i.e., >4 hours as a compliance factor for dry eye, our data suggest that VDT usage less than 4 hours also can be a risk factor for dry eye since all our 116 participants with dry eye symptoms are VDT users and interestingly 78% (90) of them are <4 hours VDT users but still have dry eye symptoms.