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Observational studyItalian journal of pediatrics2022

Impact of screen exposure on pediatric vernal Keratoconjunctivitis: a survey during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy.

Marzio Masini, Giulia Brindisi, Mattia Giovannini, Elia Pignataro, Laura Di Grande, Cinzia De Libero, Marcella Nebbioso, Francesca Mori, Roberto Caputo, Anna Maria Zicari

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Observational study in Italian journal of pediatrics, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Vernal Keratoconjunctivitis: A Systematic Review.Clinical reviews in allergy & immunology · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Marzio Masini *Department of Maternal Infantile and Urological Sciences, Division of Pediatric Allergology and Immunology, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185, Rome, Italy. marzio.masini@uniroma1.it.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7291-4202
Giulia Brindisi *Department of Maternal Infantile and Urological Sciences, Division of Pediatric Allergology and Immunology, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185, Rome, Italy.
Mattia GiovanniniPediatric Allergology Unit, Meyer Children's University Hospital, Viale Pieraccini 24, 50139, Florence, Italy.
Elia PignataroDepartment of Maternal Infantile and Urological Sciences, Division of Pediatric Allergology and Immunology, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185, Rome, Italy.
Laura Di GrandePediatric Allergology Unit, Meyer Children's University Hospital, Viale Pieraccini 24, 50139, Florence, Italy.
Cinzia De LiberoClinical Ophthalmology Unit, Meyer Children's University Hospital, Viale Pieraccini 24, 50139, Florence, Italy.
Marcella NebbiosoDepartment of Sense Organs, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185, Rome, Italy.
Francesca MoriPediatric Allergology Unit, Meyer Children's University Hospital, Viale Pieraccini 24, 50139, Florence, Italy.
Roberto Caputo *Clinical Ophthalmology Unit, Meyer Children's University Hospital, Viale Pieraccini 24, 50139, Florence, Italy.
Anna Maria Zicari *Department of Maternal Infantile and Urological Sciences, Division of Pediatric Allergology and Immunology, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185, Rome, Italy.
Meyer Children's Hospital · ITSapienza University of Rome · IT

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe SARS-CoV-2 outbreak pushed the Italian government to start a strict lockdown, replacing school attendance with long-distance learning. This caused reduced exposure to sunlight but increased exposure to screens. Vernal keratoconjunctivitis (VKC) is a chronic inflammatory ocular condition in which exposure to light plays a cardinal role. We conducted an online survey to evaluate the impact of screen exposure on children with VKC during the COVID-19 lockdown.

methodsWe performed a survey-based observational study, asking patients followed at the Allergology clinics of Meyer Children's University Hospital in Florence and of Policlinico Umberto I in Rome to provide grading on 6 subjective ocular clinical manifestations presented during the lockdown and to give an estimate of their hours/day of screen exposure.

resultsMean scores of signs and symptoms increased homogeneously when studying patients exposed to longer screen time. When comparing scores collected in 2019 to those in 2020, there was not a significant reduction in clinical manifestations, although the situation differed between the two centers due to geographical differences in sunlight exposure.

conclusionDuring the lockdown, there was a reduction in sunlight exposure but conversely an increase in the time spent in front of screens that correlated with the worsening of VKC signs and symptoms in direct proportion to the hours/day of screen exposure. Our results also showed a statistically significant difference in the relative impact of long-distance learning on VKC clinical manifestations in the different Italian regions.

Indexed as

Conjunctivitis, AllergicScreen TimeChildCommunicable Disease ControlCOVID-19HumansItalyPandemicsSurveys and QuestionnairesChildrenCOVID-19LockdownSARS-CoV-2ScreensSurveyVernal keratoconjunctivitis (VKC)

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