Influence of video-display terminals (vdt) exposure on mental health of the users

Abstract

The article considers a possibility of developing disorders in psychic adaptation of video-display terminals users. Such disorders among the VDT users were more frequent than among people from the control group. It was shown that possibility of such reactions depends on duration of VDT usage. More distinct changes were observed in the group, having been worked with VDT for more than 144 months. People with the less experience of VDT operating (up to 48 hours) are also included in the risk group. Among different professional groupes the largest changes were noticed among programmers, the least — among PC operators.

Keywords

Neurological archive of Bekhterev

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Amirov N.K., Fatkhutdinova L.М.