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NCT Number: NCT05699057

Tendency to Suicide as a Sequel of Computer Vision Syndrome

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

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Key information

Age range

16 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Primary location

Faculty of medicine

Sohag, 82425, Egypt

About this study

CVS-F4 (30 questions) will be an online survey via the SurveyMonkey Company. We will collect the responses and analyze 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. The questionnaire includes questions regarding potential ocular, extra-ocular, musclo-skeletal and neuro-psychatric complains caused by CVS. 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 Complete statistical analysis of the survey data will be done using univariate and multivariate logistic and linear regression analysis.

Who can participate

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • university students
  • university staff members

Exclusion criteria

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

Treatment and study plan

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.

Primary outcomes

  1. Tendency to suicide

    Time frame: 3 months

    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

  2. Depression

    Time frame: 3 months

    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. Screen-time

    Time frame: 3 months

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

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Sohag University

Other

Registry information

Official study title

Prevalence and Associated Risk Factors of Tendency to Suicide as a Sequel of Computer Vision Syndrome Among Medical Students in Egypt

Important dates

Study start
2022
Primary completion
2023
Study completion
2023
First posted
Jan 26, 2023
Registry last updated
Mar 31, 2023

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