Psychological factors and visual fatigue in working with video display terminals.
Objectives: To examine the part played by psychological factors in complaints about visual health reported by banking officers who work at video display terminals (VDTs).Methods: Out of a population of 385 bank workers, a group of 212 subjects without organic visual disturbances (as determined by op...
| Publicado en: | Occupational & Environmental Medicine Vol. 58; no. 4; pp. 267 - 272 |
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BMJ Publishing Group
Apr2001
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