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Volume 3
Optometry: Open Access
ISSN: 2476-2075
Optometry 2018
October 08-09, 2018
October 08-09, 2018 | Edinburgh, Scotland
3
rd
International Conference and Expo on
Optometry & Vision Science
Ocular burning-smartphone and symptoms in university students
Alejandra Mendivelso Suárez
Universidad de la Salle, Colombia
C
ommunication is one of the primary needs of young people, since technological evolution has generated the creation
of devices such as smart mobile phones in order to entertain, communicate, and generate access to different sources of
information. Most university students have a smart mobile device that they use in all their daily activities. The overuse of
these smartphones can produce general and ocular symptoms. During 2017, we studied 204 university students in Bogotá -
Colombia to evaluate symptoms by use of smartphone.
Evidence showed changes in behavior such as decreased sleep time or stop eating. In this study we found general symptoms as:
headache, pain in hands and shoulders, blurred vision, photophobia and ocular burning.
Biography
Alejandra Mendivelso Suárez is a assistant professor at El Bosque University Bogotá and KOL for Coopervision in Colombia. Alejandra did her education in
magister vision sciences at University of La Salle. She is also an optometrist at University of La Salle. Alejandra relevant course work includes El Bosque University
- course in scientific writing and evaluation in research; University of Oklahoma - Designing courses for significant learning, etc.
Alejandra Mendivelso Suárez, Optom open access 2018, Volume 3
DOI: 10.4172/2476-2075-C1-008
Age
< 15 years
6.11 %
20- 25 years
91. 60 %
25 years
1.53 %
> 26 years
0.76%
Table 1:
Students’ age - SPADIES 2016