66.9% of the parents surveyed hope that the school will strictly implement eye care exercises and physical education classes
On September 10, Fu Fengying, a teacher at Dongguan Primary School in Shaowu City, Fujian Province, instructed students to hold pens in a myopia prevention and control class. Xinhua News Agency reporter Peng Zhangqing/Photo
In the new semester, primary and secondary school students across the country have returned to campus, but after a long period of home epidemic prevention and online teaching, the vision of primary and secondary school students has become a problem. A survey conducted by the Ministry of Education on the changes in vision of 14,532 primary, junior high and high school students in 9 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) during the epidemic showed that the myopia rate increased by 11.7% in half a year.
Last week, a survey of 1,505 parents of primary and secondary school students conducted by the Social Survey Center of China Youth Daily and the Questionnaire Network showed that 77.2% of the parents surveyed took their children to the hospital to check their vision before and after the start of the school year. 50.6% of the parents surveyed said that their children's vision was reduced. After resuming school life, 89.1% of the parents surveyed were more worried about their children's eye habits and eye protection awareness. 66.9% of the parents surveyed hope that the school will strictly implement eye care exercises and physical education classes.
50.6% of the parents surveyed said that their children's eyesight has declined in the past six months
According to the survey, 77.2% of the parents surveyed took their children to the hospital before and after the start of the school year to check their vision, and only 22.8% of the parents did not plan to go. Interaction analysis found that parents with moderate myopia had stronger executive ability (85.3%), followed by mild myopia (83.4%).
The daughter of Wang Xuan (pseudonym), a private enterprise employee in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, just entered junior high school this year, and after the start of school, she found that she could not see the blackboard clearly when she sat a little farther away from the classroom, so she had to take her daughter to the hospital for optometry on weekends, "I have been nearsighted at 150 degrees, I was too devastated, I didn't expect her to wear glasses so young."
Shandong full-time mother Liu Chengcheng (pseudonym), son in the fourth grade of primary school, has been wearing myopia for two years, every 3 to 4 months, she took her son to the hospital to review the vision, never dared to fall, "Recently this review, the doctor said that the corrected vision reached 1.2, keep it well, let me take the child to go once in the next six months, I don't mention how happy."
According to the survey, 50.6% of the parents surveyed admitted that their children's eyesight had declined in the past six months, 25.9% said that there was no change, and 23.5% said that they had improved. The interaction analysis found that junior high school students had the highest rate of vision loss (61.5%), followed by high school students (56.3%).
Wang Xuan told reporters that her daughter likes to be clean and loves to learn, and even during the holidays, she will arrange extra homework tasks for herself. "Last semester, I had to take online classes and check materials every day at home, and I spent a lot of time in front of the electronic screen. In addition, due to the impact of the epidemic, there are fewer trips out, and I often can't think of going downstairs."
"My son came back on his first day of school and told me that he was nearsighted at the same table and fat. Parents are busy with work and do not care much, usually hold the mobile phone and do not let go, the reported sports training class is also shelved because of the epidemic, eat more and do not exercise, he feels that he is 'old and comfortable' at home at the same table, and the result is myopia. Liu Chengcheng said.
Wang Yuan (pseudonym), the fifth-grade class teacher of a public primary school in Tangshan, Hebei Province, said that after the start of the new semester, there were a few more "small glasses" in the class, and there were more parents who consulted her to move forward than before, "Last semester, the main home epidemic prevention, outdoor activities opportunities are much less, usually also online classes, plus some families have no restrictions on their children's use of electronic products and watching TV, staying in the house for a long time, children's eyes can not get effective rest."
What causes a child's vision loss? In the survey, 59.5% of the parents surveyed pointed out that there was less outdoor physical exercise, 56.7% of the parents surveyed said that there was less outdoor activity, and 52.7% of the parents surveyed admitted that they were addicted to video games. Others include: long online classes (51.4%), irregular work and rest (36.7%), and children themselves do not know how to use their eyes (25.5%).
"There are more subjects in secondary schools, and the curriculum tasks are heavier than in primary schools. Using recess time to look away and relax is very important for children to relieve eye fatigue. But now I am particularly worried that my daughter will not pay attention to the combination of work and leisure when she goes to school. Wang Xuan said that her colleague's children's vision level dropped rapidly in junior high school.
Zhang Hui (pseudonym), an optometrist at a brand optical shop in Beijing, has been engaged in this industry for more than 10 years and often communicates with parents and children in the process of dispensing glasses for young people. He felt that in addition to the heavy schoolwork tasks, it was very common for children to have insufficient awareness of their own health with their eyes. "For example, parents let them watch less TV, rest early at night, some children try to watch more TV, play mobile phones or turn on the lamp to read books after turning off the lights at night, fight 'guerrilla warfare' with parents, and think that they have earned, and they do not understand the harm of myopia."
After resuming school life, 89.1% of the parents surveyed were more worried about their children's eye habits and eye protection awareness. The interaction analysis found that parents surveyed with mild myopia (91.4%) and moderate myopia (90.6%) were significantly more worried; parents of primary school students in the fourth to sixth grades (90.3%) and junior high school students (90.0%) were more worried.
"Last semester, I mainly learned through online classes, which was still less effective than sitting in the classroom and learning on the spot. Moreover, the length of online classes is limited, and the things that can be taught are also limited. I am very happy to be able to return to the classroom this semester, but I am also particularly worried that the teacher will be too heavy to eat in order to supplement the knowledge points that were missed in the previous semester. It is hoped that the school can plan and arrange reasonably. Zhang Xiaobei (pseudonym), a sophomore in high school this year, said.
"When I was at home, I tried to take my child out every day, and after the epidemic improved, I often took him to outdoor activities on weekends. After the start of school, it will depend on the supervision and management of the school and teachers. Liu Chengcheng hopes that the school can pay attention to the students' vision problems, in addition to arranging morning exercises in the morning, eye health exercises and afternoon recesses every day, several physical education classes per week must be implemented in place and cannot be discounted.
Wang Yuan said that students' vision problems have received more and more attention from schools, "Our school explicitly prohibits the arbitrary occupation of physical education classes. Now every morning for eye exercises, I will stay in the classroom and see lazy, perfunctory, will remind." Wang Yuan emphasized the love of eyes at the opening class meeting, telling the students to walk around more after class and not to sit in the classroom.
In the survey, 66.9% of the parents surveyed hoped that the school would strictly implement eye health exercises and physical education classes, and 66.1% of the parents surveyed hoped to ensure more than 1 hour of exercise time per day. Others include: considering the intensity of students' homework with eye health (49.3%), scientific and reasonable design and arrangement of multimedia classroom teaching (47.2%), and effective management of students' carrying and use of mobile phones during school (33.2%).
Among the parents surveyed, 29.5% of the children were in the first to third grades of primary school, 45.9% of the fourth to sixth grades of primary schools, 19.3% of the junior high schools and 5.3% of the high schools. 27.3% of children are not myopic, 56.1% are mildly myopic (below 300 degrees), 16.3% are moderately myopic (300-600 degrees), and 0.3% are highly myopic (above 600 degrees). (Reporter Du Yuanchun)