Computer vision syndrome: an emerging problem during the COVID-19 health emergency

ABSTRACT

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced the virtualization of the activities that people carried out in person to comply with the mandatory social isolation provisions and prevent infection rates from increasing. Therefore, it was necessary for them to be connected for many hours to digital devices such as computers, laptops, tablets and cell phones, mainly, which could have caused computer vision syndrome, a condition that impacts the normal development of academic activities, labor, social, etc. In this sense, we consider that although during the pandemic it could have been evidenced more frequently, it would have a prevalence that would continue to be significant in the current post-pandemic context.