Parental history of myopia, sports and outdoor activities, and future myopia.

By L. Jones, L. Sinnott, D. Mutti, G. Mitchell, M. Moeschberger, K. Zadnik. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 2007

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Worldwide prevalence and risk factors for myopia (2011, positive): “In predictive models for future myopia, the combined amount of sports and outdoor hours per week was predictive of future myopia.(54) Additional recent studies have found that outdoor activity is an independent factor negatively associated with myopia.”
The epidemics of myopia: Aetiology and prevention (2017, neutral): “While the biological pathways that lead to delay in the onset of myopia seem to be reasonably clear, there is general agreement that there is little evidence for regulation of progression, defined as myopic shifts in refraction in those who are already myopic (French et al., 2013a, b; He et al., 201”