Spending at least 15 minutes at a time outside appeared to lead to less myopic shift among elementary school students, according to data published in JAMA Network Open.
“Previous studies have demonstrated that spending more time outdoors is an effective intervention for myopia,” Jun Chen, PhD, from the Shanghai Eye Diseases Prevention & Treatment Center at Shanghai Eye Hospital, and colleagues wrote. “The previous findings emphasized the impact of daily time outdoors and sunlight intensity on myopia, indicating a potential collaborative association between time outdoors