A Child-Friendly Wearable Device for Quantifying Environmental Risk Factors for Myopia.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

In the past few decades, the prevalence of myopia, where the eye grows too long, has increased dramatically. The visual environment appears to be critical to regulating the eye growth. Thus, it is very important to determine the properties of the environment that put children at risk for myopia. Researchers have suggested that the intensity of illumination and range of distances to which a child's eyes are exposed are important, but this has not been confirmed.

Methods

We designed, built, and tested an inexpensive, child-friendly, head-mounted device that can measure the intensity and spectral content of illumination approaching the eyes and can also measure the distances to which the central visual field of the eyes are exposed. The device is mounted on a child's bi

SUBMITTER: Gibaldi A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11498637 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature