Frequency of Computer Vision Syndrome Ergonomic Practices among Computer Engineering Students
The aim of this study was to assess the frequency of CVS related ergonomic practices among computer engineering students. A cross sectional study was conducted among computer engineering students of Superior University. A self administrated questionnaire to assess computer vision syndrome and UC computer checklist was used. Simple randomized technique was used. A Sample of 170 computer engineering students was taken from a population of 1250 students of computer engineering department. All collected data were entered in computer program SPSS version 20 and analyzed through this software. For categorical variable frequency and percentage were used and for discrete variables mean and standard deviation were used. The frequency of CVS was found to be 72.4% (123/170) Average duration of computer use was 2 5 hours by most of the students (n=109, 64.1% About 45.9% (78/170) students were using computers more than 50 hours a week. (70.0% students reported forward leaning posture to clearly see characters on the screen situation. Regarding the back posture out of 170only 28 (16.5% students were employing Good Posture. This study concludes that computer vision syndrome is a highly frequent condition among computer engineering students. The results of selfreported ergonomic analysis of computer use revealed that majority of the students were not practicing the correct ergonomic principles.