[Insight report] The demand for eye care is rising, and scientific cognition and healthy eye use habits need to be improved

China is jokingly called "a country with myopia" because of its high myopia rate. This description is not exaggerated. According to the latest data, the number of myopia in China has climbed to 600 million, and this number is still rising. More importantly, myopia is not only a common problem among adults, but also an increasing number of children are troubled by this problem. In contrast to the "myopic country", nearly 80% of Chinese people stare at the electronic screen for more than 4 hours every day, and Chinese children and teenagers are also exposed to the electronic screen at high frequency due to the environmental impact. Obviously, we have to correlate the viewing time of the electronic screen with eye health problems such as myopia, which is indeed the case.

According to a foreign survey, if children and teenagers play with mobile phones for more than two hours every day and use mobile phones for three months continuously, their eyesight will drop from 1.0 to 0.5, which is very terrible. According to medical analysis, the eyes have been staring at the screen for a long time. Due to frequent flickering changes in brightness and visual distance, the eyes must adjust themselves nervously in order to see the words and graphics on the screen. In this way, the eye's adjusting muscles, especially the ciliary muscles, must move frequently, which is likely to cause visual fatigue. In addition, if you watch the screen closely for a long time, the lens will over flex. A long time can lead to ciliary muscle spasm, which is easy to become irreversible myopia.

It is in consideration of the deep impact of mobile phones, tablets, televisions and other electronic screens on Chinese people's eye health and myopia, that Zhongguancun Online launched the "Questionnaire Survey on Screen Use and Eye Care Health" activity. This research activity, with the theme of "Eyes' Colorful World, Starting from Eye Care", aims to deeply explore the eye use habits and eye conditions of contemporary adults and adolescents, as well as their understanding and practice of eye care knowledge. After a week of online user research, we collected nearly 2183 questionnaires. These valuable data provide important references for us to further help Chinese people study and solve visual health problems.

The relationship between electronic equipment and eye health

As stated at the beginning of this article, 80% of Chinese people use electronic screens for more than 4 hours every day, which coincides with the survey results of the Questionnaire on Screen Use and Eye Care Health Care launched by Zhongguancun Online.

According to the survey results of the Questionnaire on Screen Use and Eye Care Health, most of the respondents use mobile phones for video and audio entertainment, game entertainment and office communication, of which 39% use mobile phones for more than 5 hours and 2% watch TV for 4 hours or more.

In addition, in the survey results, we can also see that about 75% of the respondents said that they had different degrees of myopia, and 39% of them had myopia of more than 500 °. In addition, most of these interviewees had experienced symptoms such as dry eyes, acid bloating, headache, dizziness, and decreased attention when using electronic screens for a long time.

It can be seen from this that watching electronic screens for a long time is highly related to vision health and has a significant impact on people's vision. This conclusion was also recognized by 97% of the respondents.

The Challenge to Eye Vision in the Screen Age

Since we have realized that electronic screens have an important impact on eye health, why do Chinese people still have such a high myopia rate? Is it because Chinese people do not attach importance to the eyes, the "window of the soul"? In fact, the data shown in the survey results show the opposite results.

From the survey results alone, the public's attention to the need for eye protection is very high. As many as 97% of the respondents are aware of the damage to eyes caused by using electronic devices for a long time. At the same time, more than half of the respondents said that they have or are willing to try to use electronic devices with eye protection function.

However, this is not the case:

First, 99% of the respondents believe that using mobile phones for a long time will harm their eyes, but 85% still occasionally or often continue to use mobile phones after turning off the lights after watching the screen for a long time in the daytime.

Secondly, 91% of the respondents agree that measures such as reducing the use time of electronic devices, choosing eye protection screen technology products, and using anti blue light filters or glasses are beneficial to eye protection. In real life, 38% of the respondents still use mobile phones for more than 5 hours every day, and do not actively take effective eye protection measures.

From the above data, we can also see that although the public has a strong demand for eye care, and most people have already experienced visual fatigue or myopia, the actual willingness to control the use of screen time is not strong, and there is even a negative attitude of ignoring visual health and letting it go, which greatly increases the risk of visual health and even physical health.

Scientific cognition determines eye care behavior and effect

In addition to the lack of strong desire to protect eyes and the lack of autonomy in eye care behavior, a large number of users have scientific cognitive bias regarding the impact of the screen on eye health.

According to the survey, 35% and 31% of the users think that our mobile phones and laptops commonly used in life and work are more eye friendly, and 15% and 12% of the respondents think that televisions and monitors are more eye friendly. The survey results show that there is still a huge deviation in people's perception of eye health on electronic screens.

In fact, due to the small mobile phone screen, it is often difficult for users to maintain an appropriate viewing distance, leading to increased eye fatigue. However, the TV screen is large, and the viewing distance is relatively long, so the burden on the eyes is relatively small. Interestingly, 83% of TV users in the survey said that they would keep an appropriate distance and sitting posture to watch, so as to ensure eye health. However, 71% of mobile phone users said that they would take eye protection measures, but in life, they are often difficult to keep an appropriate viewing distance, leading to increased eye fatigue.

Through the above survey, instead of expecting people to adjust their habits of using electronic screens (such as ensuring appropriate viewing distance, correct sitting posture and appropriate use time), it is better to improve the eye protection performance of display devices (such as reducing the harm of blue light, reducing the glare impact, reducing the blue light weighted radiation brightness, etc.) to help electronic screen users passively protect their eyes.

In fact, people have a deep understanding of the importance of various eye protection measures and are willing to take such measures as "reducing the use time of electronic equipment" and "using anti blue light filters or glasses" to protect their eyes.

Summary:

For this research and analysis, we can draw the following conclusions: Although people have realized the existence of visual health problems such as visual fatigue, they have had unpleasant experiences caused by screen glare, and are willing to understand and choose display equipment with eye protection function to improve their visual health. However, it is hard to know what kind of screen or related parameters are more important for eye protection, and the deviation in the issue of which product is more important for eye protection, such as mobile phones, televisions, etc., has affected the choice of display equipment that can really protect the eyes of Chinese people, and ultimately led to a long period of time that Chinese people's vision health could not be effectively alleviated.

Therefore, it is imperative to improve the popularization of scientific eye care knowledge, guide the public to establish correct eye care concepts, develop good eye use habits, and promote the research and development of eye care products and market norms. Only by better meeting consumers' needs for eye care products and helping users to achieve scientific eye care can we reverse the current situation of "a country with myopia".

In this regard, Zhongguancun Online will entrust an authoritative organization to launch an in-depth inspection report to explore the way of eye care for electronic products with rigorous data and scientific demonstration, provide scientific and practical eye care knowledge guidance for the public, help consumers make more intelligent choice of eye care products, and guide users to form more scientific and effective eye care habits, At the same time, it also provides powerful data support and market insight for enterprises to develop and promote eye care products.

Please look forward to this professional report that deeply analyzes the problem of eye care. Let's explore the way of scientific eye care and build a bright future together.

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