Dry eye related to smartphone addiction in university students

Kendrick Shih
VIENNA — A high prevalence of smartphone addiction and related dry eye disease was found among undergraduate students at the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong.
“Interestingly, the score of smartphone addiction was completely not correlated with the self-reported time of smartphone use,” Kendrick Shih, MD, said at the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons meeting.
In a study, 102 students were recruited, and smartphone addiction was assessed through the short version of the Smartphone Addiction Scale, a 10-items

Full Story →