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The Impact of Rehabilitation on Quality of Life in Visually Impaired

NCT00013403 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 300

Last updated 2015-06-26

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Summary

The project has four primary objectives: 1) Determine if blind rehabilitation improves the quality of life of legally blind veterans; 2) Determine the relationship between quality of life and visual function; 3) Determine if factors, such as cognitive status, level of depression, age and the presence of additional medical conditions besides vision loss, intervention of blind rehabilitation extends beyond the visually impaired individual and improve the quality of life of their primary caregiver (e.g. spouse, partner, family member or friend.)

Conditions

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Blindness

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • John Fryer, Ph.D., Asst. Director · Department of Veterans Affairs, Program Analysis and Review Section (PARS), Rehabilitation Research & Development Service

  • Nancy Rocheleau, Program Analyst · Department of Veterans Affairs, Program Analysis and Review Section (PARS), Rehabilitation Research & Development Service

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
1999-04-30
Completion
2002-03-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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