Tendency to Suicide as a Sequel of Computer Vision Syndrome

NCT05699057 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: Soh-Med-22-10-25
• Study Type: observational
• Target: 3,512
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

CVS-F4 questionnaire will be used as an instrument to survey prevalence of tendency to suicide among medical students in the Egyptian Universities and analyse associated risk factors and any correlated determents

Conditions

Computer Vision Syndrome

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (3)

• Tendency to suicide

  The participants will respond to Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS-F4) questionnaire and the number and percentage of participants suffering from tendency to suicide will be recorded

  3 months

• Depression

  The participants will respond to Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS-F4) questionnaire and the number and percentages of participants suffering from tendency to suicide and depression will be recorded. A correlation between depression and tendency to suicide will be measured as P value less than 0.05 will be significant

  3 months

• Screen-time

  The total daily average screen-hours will be measured using mean and standard deviation

  3 months

Interventions

Suicide GROUP BEHAVIORAL

CVS-F4 will be an online survey via the SurveyMonkey Company. The participants will report their potential CVS complains and associated screen factors as screen-time, screen-size, screen-resolution and other factors. We will collect the responses and analyse the results. Informed consent will be obtained from the participants as an item within the survey itself that he/she agrees to use his/her data in this research work. This group will contain participants with CVS complains. Finally, we will To document the prevalence of tendency to suicide among medical students in the Egyptian Universities and analyse associated risk factors and any correlated determents.

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 16 Years+
• Sex: all
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)
• Sampling Method: Probability Sample

Study Population

medical students or staff who are using screens in their medical studies or personal lives and how these screens affect their medical studies and the effect of mandated medical computer use if present on their screen-behaviour, tendency to suicide and associated risk factor

You may qualify if:

• university students
• university staff members

You may not qualify if:

• hysteria
• ocular surgery
• amblyopia
• anisometropia
• strabismus
• systemic disease

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Sohag University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Faculty of medicine

Sohag, 82425, Egypt

Location

Study Officials

• Mohammed Iqbal Iqbal, MD, PhD

  Professor of Ophthalmology

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: observational
• Observational Model: CASE CONTROL
• Time Perspective: CROSS SECTIONAL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Professor of Ophthalmology

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: October 9, 2022
• First Posted: January 26, 2023
• Study Start: October 30, 2022
• Primary Completion: February 20, 2023
• Study Completion: March 30, 2023
• Last Updated: March 31, 2023

Record last verified: 2023-03

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will share
• Shared Documents: STUDY PROTOCOL, CSR
• Time Frame: 12 months

Locations

EG (1)