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__Purpose:__ The goal of this study was both to assess the frequency of self‐reported eye symptoms for employees in a non‐air‐conditioned office building complex, and to specifically assess whether confounding variables (contact lens wear, medicines use, and provoking stimuli) had a discernible impact on the characteristics of this reporting. __Methods:__ A questionnaire was distributed, in the winter months, to office employees in a building complex within a city‐located University site, consisting of non‐air‐conditioned rooms with some mechanical ventilation. The questionnaire asked respondents to identify any eye symptoms experienced (foreign body sensation, soreness, dryness, grittiness, itchiness, stinging, intense burning), the frequency of their occurrence, details of any conditions provoking eye symptoms (such as changes in the microenvironment), their medication use and if they were contact lens wearers. __Results:__ The proportion of respondents for various categories was calculated, along with the total number of symptoms. If `eye irritation' is considered as reporting any symptoms experienced at any time, then 63% of 292 respondents (median age 42.5 years) reported a

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Author

Michael J. Doughty; Kenneth A. Blades; Nassim Ibrahim

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (Blackwell Publishing); Blackwell Publishing Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0275-5408)

Published

2002

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)