Clinical profile of dry eye disease among visual display units users

Abstract Introduction: Users of visual display units (VDU) are people who use computers, desktops, and mobile screens for various purposes. Rampant and dysregulated use of VDU has been found to cause dry eye disease (DED), that manifests in the form of eye strain, fatigue, blurred vision, red eyes, burning eyes, and excessive watering. Purpose: To estimate the clinical profile of DED among users of VDU, visiting the eye department in a tertiary care hospital of Uttarakhand. Methods: It is a prospective, cross-sectional, observational, and hospital-based study. A total of 200 users of VDU were evaluated for their duration on screens and their clinical picture of DED. The data were then analyzed for ocular manifestations of DED. Results: The study analyzed a total of 200 VDU users, in an age range of 20–40 years, of whom, males were 130 (65%) and 70 (35%) were females. The highest proportion of participants (40%) were aged 31 and 35 years. Symptoms such as headache and eye strain were most prevalent (65%). The study also found that 78.60% had DED with Schirmer test I, with a statistically significant P value of