Unfavourable factors promoting development of myopia among the students of medical colleges

• Main Authors: I. M. Valiakhmetova, S. G. Akhmerova, R. N. Sagitov
• Format: Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: Academician I.P. Pavlov First St. Petersburg State Medical University 2014-03-01
• Series: Učenye Zapiski Sankt-Peterburgskogo Gosudarstvennogo Medicinskogo Universiteta im. Akad. I.P. Pavlova
• Subjects: студент; наследственность; миопия; офтальмолог; комиссия; student; heredity; myopia; ophthalmologist; commission
• Online Access: https://www.sci-notes.ru/jour/article/view/8

To define the risk factors of myopia development among the students the authors got acquainted with spreading of the pathology among the students and their parents. 313 students of Tuimaizy medical college (at the age of 16 to 22 ys) and their parents (n = 579) participated in the study. Attention was paid to the internal factors (heredity, family atmosphere, quality of life) and to the external factors (the life, intensity in studying) -the factors promoting development of myopia. Special psychomedico-pedagogical commission has been organized for better health protection of the organ of vision in teenagers in Tuimaizy medical college.