Pilot study of a novel classroom designed to prevent myopia by increasing children’s exposure to outdoor light

• Zhongqiang Zhou ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Zhongqiang Zhou, Tingting Chen

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

  Affiliations Henan Eye Institute, Henan Eye Hospital, Henan Provincial People's Hospital, People's Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China, State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

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• Tingting Chen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Zhongqiang Zhou, Tingting Chen

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China, The Department of Ophthalmology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

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• Mengrui Wang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Visualization

  Affiliation School of Architecture, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China

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• Ling Jin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

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• Yongyi Zhao,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Visualization

  Affiliation School of Architecture, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China

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• Shangji Chen,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Visualization

  Affiliation Guangming Eye Hospital, Yangjiang, People’s Republic of China

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• Congyao Wang,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

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• Guoshan Zhang,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

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• Qilin Wang,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

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• Qiaoming Deng,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Visualization

  Affiliation School of Architecture, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China

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• Yubo Liu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Visualization

  Affiliation School of Architecture, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China

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• Ian G. Morgan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

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• Mingguang He,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China, Centre for Eye Research Australia, University of Melbourne, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, Melbourne, Australia

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• Yizhi Liu,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Validation

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

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• Nathan Congdon

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ncongdon1@gmail.com

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China, ORBIS International, New York, NY, United States of America, Translational Research for Equitable Eye care, Centre for Public Health, Royal Victoria Hospital, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9866-3416

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