Table 4.
Severity of dry eye, according to the OSDI, in the study participants by selected behavioral and environmental factors (n = 312).
| Independent Trait | Normal | Mild | Moderate | Severe |
aOR p-Value |
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | ||
| How many hours a day do you spend in close proximity to the screen of an electronic device, e.g., mobile phone, computer, tablet, reader (not taking into account a TV set)? | |||||||||
| <4 | 29 | 21.6 | 11 | 14.3 | 6 | 13.3 | 3 | 5.4 | =1.37 =0.006 |
| 4–8 | 65 | 48.5 | 49 | 63.6 | 24 | 53.4 | 25 | 44.6 | |
| >8 | 40 | 29.9 | 17 | 22.1 | 15 | 33.3 | 28 | 50.0 | |
| How many hours a day do you spend in front of the screen of an electronic device (not taking into account a TV set), without taking breaks? | |||||||||
| <1 | 32 | 23.9 | 6 | 7.8 | 8 | 17.8 | 5 | 8.9 | =1.16 =0.016 |
| 1–2 | 56 | 41.8 | 43 | 55.8 | 19 | 42.2 | 23 | 41.1 | |
| 3–4 | 26 | 19.4 | 23 | 29.9 | 11 | 24.4 | 19 | 33.9 | |
| >4 | 20 | 14.9 | 5 | 6.5 | 7 | 5.6 | 9 | 16.1 | |
| How many hours a day do you spend outdoors? | |||||||||
| <1 | 39 | 29.1 | 25 | 32.5 | 16 | 35.6 | 21 | 37.5 | =0.261 |
| 1–4 | 75 | 56.0 | 48 | 62.3 | 22 | 49.9 | 31 | 55.4 | |
| >4 | 20 | 14.9 | 4 | 5.2 | 7 | 15.6 | 4 | 7.1 | |
| How many hours a day do you spend in air-conditioned interiors? | |||||||||
| <1 | 83 | 61.9 | 44 | 57.1 | 24 | 53.3 | 34 | 60.8 | =0.648 |
| 1–4 | 30 | 22.4 | 21 | 27.3 | 9 | 20.0 | 11 | 19.6 | |
| >4 | 21 | 15.7 | 12 | 15.6 | 12 | 26.7 | 11 | 19.6 | |
| Regular, daily basis use tobacco products | 32 | 23.9 | 11 | 14.3 | 15 | 33.3 | 16 | 28.6 | =0.078 |
| History of SARS-CoV-2 infection | 75 | 56.0 | 34 | 44.2 | 25 | 55.6 | 39 | 69.6 | =0.036 |
aOR—adjusted odds ratio; the adjutancy procedure comprised the participants’ age, gender, place of residence, faculty, refraction error, use of contact lenses, comorbidities, medicines taken.