Status:
RECRUITING
Correcting Myopia Among Secondary School Children to Increase Academic High School Attendance Rates in Rural Communities
Lead Sponsor:
Queen's University, Belfast
Collaborating Sponsors:
Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-sen University
Stanford University
Conditions:
Refractive Errors
Eligibility:
All Genders
Up to 18 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
Chinese children are some of the most short-sighted in the world, but only one in five children in poor areas who needs glasses has them. Our team has already shown in other trials that giving childre...
Detailed Description
Research question: Will providing free glasses to myopic rural Chinese students, with a teacher incentive to promote use, increase academic high school attendance? Design: Cluster-randomised controll...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Year 1 classes (likely age 12-13 years) at the recruited schools
- Have uncorrected (without glasses) visual acuity of ≤6/12 in both eyes;
- Refractive error meets cut-offs shown to be associated with significantly greater improvement in visual acuity when corrected (myopia ≤-0.75 diopters (D, or astigmatism (non-spherical refractive error) ≥1.00 D);
- Visual acuity can be improved to \>= 6/7.5 in at least one eye with glasses.
Exclusion
- Presence of visually-significant ocular condition besides refractive error
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
November 28 2024
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ESTIMATED
End Date :
July 1 2027
Estimated Enrollment :
10000 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT04077086
Start Date
November 28 2024
End Date
July 1 2027
Last Update
December 27 2024
Active Locations (3)
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1
He Eye Specialist Hospital
Shenyang, Liaoning, China, 110163
2
Ningxia University
Yinchuan, Xixia, China, 750021
3
Centre for Public Health
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, BT12 6BJ