Symptoms and Severity of Visual Stress in Nursing Students: Implicationsfor Education and Healthcare Settings

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Reading involves complex visual and phonological processes; nevertheless, these processes can only begin when the retina receives photons reflected (or emitted) from the written page. Consequently, while visual comfort when reading can be affected by many external factors, the amount of illumination, the spectral properties of the illumination, and the reflectance properties of the page being read (contrast, brightness) are vitally important.