Effectiveness of Eye Exercise on Asthenopia among Selected School Children

The present study has been conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of eye exercise on asthenopia among school children in selected areas at Chennai. A pre-experimental design with purposive sampling technique was used, data collected from 30 school children age between 8 to 15 years. Blink test was used to select the study samples. Pre-test level of eye fatigue was assessed by Fivepoint Likert scale about ocular fatigue, followed by eye exercise was implemented then the post-test level of eye fatigue was conductedafter 6 weeks with the same questionnaire.The pre-test eye fatigue mean score was 13.4 with standard deviation of 7.57 and the posttest eye fatigue mean score of school children was 10.8 with standard deviation of 6.615 and the mean difference between the pre and post-test was 2.6.The calculated paired "t" test value is t = 2.7 at P > 0.05 level and there was a significant association between pre-test eye fatigues with Hobbies.The result concluded that the eye exercise was effective in reducing the eye fatigue among school children.