RETRACTED: The Validation of a Week-Long Questionnaire against Objective Measures of Light Exposure among a Sample of University Students

Chaojun Fu

Discipline of Orthoptics, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.

DOI: 10.4236/ojoph.2015.52013                

Abstract

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Keywords

Light Meter, Myopia, Questionnaire, Outdoor Time Spending, Light Exposure

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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