Reading Too Near, Seeing Television, Using Gagets or Computers in a Long Time and the Decrease of Visual Acuity in School Aged Children in the Elementary School

Heru Sulistijono (Department of Nursing, Poltekkes Kemenkes Surabaya)
Bambang Heriyanto (Department of Nursing, Poltekkes Kemenkes Surabaya)

Aloha International Journal of Multidisciplinary Advancement (AIJMU)
Vol 1, No 3 (2019): MARCH

Attention to vision disorders, technological progress is one of the things that might cause visual disturbances. The facts that occur a lot in the field, there are so many children who are familiar with gadgets or PC. The general purpose of this study is to obtain a description of the get us to factors of reading, seeing TV, gaget, PC that affect the decrease of visual acuity in school-aged children. The subject were 30 students in the grade 4-6 of elementary school Kemayoran 1 Surabaya, selected by purposive sampling. Data was collected through by questionnaire. The conclusion is that the get us to factor affects the decreased sharpness of the respondent’s vision. Keywords: get us to factor; decreased sharpness of vision; school-aged children