Impact of Environmental Factors on Short-Term Eye Strain Relief during COVID-19 Quarantine: A Pilot Study

Lu, Yihao; Wang, Jianan; Chen, Jianhua; Yan, Yufan; Zeng, Haicong; Zhang, Baowei; Ma, Haohao; Hu, Tingli

doi:10.3390/f13111966

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Impact of Environmental Factors on Short-Term Eye Strain Relief during COVID-19 Quarantine: A Pilot Study

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Yihao Lu

¹

,

Jianan Wang

^1,*,

Jianhua Chen

¹,

Yufan Yan

¹,

Haicong Zeng

¹,

Baowei Zhang

²,

Haohao Ma

² and

Tingli Hu

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College of Forestry and Landscape Architecture, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei 230036, China

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School of Life Sciences, Anhui University, Hefei 230039, China

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Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.

Forests 2022, 13(11), 1966; https://doi.org/10.3390/f13111966

Submission received: 20 September 2022 / Revised: 15 November 2022 / Accepted: 18 November 2022 / Published: 21 November 2022

(This article belongs to the Section Urban Forestry)

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Some policies implemented during the pandemic extended the time that students spend on electronic devices, increasing the risk of physical and eye strain. However, the role of different environments on eye strain recovery has not been determined. We recruited 20 undergraduate students (10 males and 10 females) from a university in eastern China and explored the restoration effects of their eye strain in different types of spaces (wayside greenspace, a playground, a square, and woodland) on campus through scale measurements. The results showed that the eye strain of the students accumulated by 15 min of e-learning was significantly relieved after 10 min of greenspace exposure compared to the indoor environment, and the recovery effect varied depending on the type of landscape. The effect of eye strain relief was found to be positively correlated with temperature, wind speed, visible sky ratio, canopy density, tree density, and solar radiation intensity, while it was negatively correlated with relative humidity. These findings enrich the research on the restoration benefits of greenspaces and provide a basis for predicting the effect of different environments on the relief of eye strain.

Keywords: campus landscape; greenspace; COVID-19; eye strain; restorative effects

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Lu, Y.; Wang, J.; Chen, J.; Yan, Y.; Zeng, H.; Zhang, B.; Ma, H.; Hu, T. Impact of Environmental Factors on Short-Term Eye Strain Relief during COVID-19 Quarantine: A Pilot Study. Forests 2022, 13, 1966. https://doi.org/10.3390/f13111966

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Lu Y, Wang J, Chen J, Yan Y, Zeng H, Zhang B, Ma H, Hu T. Impact of Environmental Factors on Short-Term Eye Strain Relief during COVID-19 Quarantine: A Pilot Study. Forests. 2022; 13(11):1966. https://doi.org/10.3390/f13111966

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Lu, Yihao, Jianan Wang, Jianhua Chen, Yufan Yan, Haicong Zeng, Baowei Zhang, Haohao Ma, and Tingli Hu. 2022. "Impact of Environmental Factors on Short-Term Eye Strain Relief during COVID-19 Quarantine: A Pilot Study" Forests 13, no. 11: 1966. https://doi.org/10.3390/f13111966

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Lu, Y., Wang, J., Chen, J., Yan, Y., Zeng, H., Zhang, B., Ma, H., & Hu, T. (2022). Impact of Environmental Factors on Short-Term Eye Strain Relief during COVID-19 Quarantine: A Pilot Study. Forests, 13(11), 1966. https://doi.org/10.3390/f13111966

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