Myopia-correcting lenses decrease eye fatigue in a visual search task for both adolescents and adults.

The steady, world-wide increase in myopia prevalence in children over the past decades has raised concerns. As an early intervention for axial-length-related myopia, correcting lenses have been developed (such as Defocus Incorporated Multiple Segment (DIMS) lenses), which have been shown to be effec...

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Autores principales:	Hyeongsuk Ryu, Uijong Ju, Christian Wallraven
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Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:ca03da6257b54ceabbba54f4898324dd2021-12-02T20:19:17ZMyopia-correcting lenses decrease eye fatigue in a visual search task for both adolescents and adults.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0258441https://doaj.org/article/ca03da6257b54ceabbba54f4898324dd2021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0258441https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203The steady, world-wide increase in myopia prevalence in children over the past decades has raised concerns. As an early intervention for axial-length-related myopia, correcting lenses have been developed (such as Defocus Incorporated Multiple Segment (DIMS) lenses), which have been shown to be effective in slowing myopia progression. Beyond this direct effect, however, it is not known whether such lenses also affect other aspects important to the wearer, such as eye fatigue, and how such effects may differ across age, as these lenses so far are typically only tested with adolescents. In the present work, we therefore investigated perceived fatigue levels according to lens type (normal vs DIMS) and age (adolescents vs adults) in a demanding visual search task ("Finding Wally") at two difficulty levels (easy vs difficult). Whereas age and difficulty did not result in significant differences in eye fatigue, we found a clear reduction of fatigue levels in both age groups when wearing the correcting lenses. Hence, the additional accommodation of these lens types may result in less strain in a task requiring sustained eye movements at near viewing distances.Hyeongsuk RyuUijong JuChristian WallravenPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 10, p e0258441 (2021)
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description	The steady, world-wide increase in myopia prevalence in children over the past decades has raised concerns. As an early intervention for axial-length-related myopia, correcting lenses have been developed (such as Defocus Incorporated Multiple Segment (DIMS) lenses), which have been shown to be effective in slowing myopia progression. Beyond this direct effect, however, it is not known whether such lenses also affect other aspects important to the wearer, such as eye fatigue, and how such effects may differ across age, as these lenses so far are typically only tested with adolescents. In the present work, we therefore investigated perceived fatigue levels according to lens type (normal vs DIMS) and age (adolescents vs adults) in a demanding visual search task ("Finding Wally") at two difficulty levels (easy vs difficult). Whereas age and difficulty did not result in significant differences in eye fatigue, we found a clear reduction of fatigue levels in both age groups when wearing the correcting lenses. Hence, the additional accommodation of these lens types may result in less strain in a task requiring sustained eye movements at near viewing distances.
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title	Myopia-correcting lenses decrease eye fatigue in a visual search task for both adolescents and adults.
title_short	Myopia-correcting lenses decrease eye fatigue in a visual search task for both adolescents and adults.
title_full	Myopia-correcting lenses decrease eye fatigue in a visual search task for both adolescents and adults.
title_fullStr	Myopia-correcting lenses decrease eye fatigue in a visual search task for both adolescents and adults.
title_full_unstemmed	Myopia-correcting lenses decrease eye fatigue in a visual search task for both adolescents and adults.
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Myopia-correcting lenses decrease eye fatigue in a visual search task for both adolescents and adults.

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