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. 2025 Jan 22;263(5):1213–1228. doi: 10.1007/s00417-024-06719-z

Table 2.

Enrolment sites, settings, place and type of measurements acquired

Number of studies
Enrolment site (n = 35 studies*)
Through school 19
Clinic patients or their families 5
Through other research studies 7
Volunteers responding to advertisements in clinics, university, and on social media 3
Not stated 1
Setting during measurements (n = 34)
Home and school and leisure 25
School only 8
Home only 1
Measurements indoors/outdoors (n = 34)
Both indoor and outdoor **, *** 20
Indoor only 5
Prescribed time outdoors only 5
Daylight hours only **** 4
Parameters measured (n = 34)
Light parameters only **, *** 21
Near-work parameters only 2
Both light and near-work 4
Prescribed time outdoors only 4
Daylight hours only **** 3

*Enthoven 2021 used two enrolment strategies; **He et al. 2022 [16] and Wu et al. 2018 [17] prescribed time outdoors and reported light measurements. ***Torii et al. 2017 [18] reported UV transmittance of eyewear ****Leng et al. 2021 [19] and Ma et al. 2024 [20] reported average annual sunshine hours from meteorological data