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Effectiveness of Alternative Approaches to Providing Spectacles in Tanzanian Secondary School Students

NCT00249275 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 250

Last updated 2005-11-07

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of two interventions, namely providing free spectacles or only a prescription to students with insufficiently corrected or uncorrected significant refractive errors.

Conditions

  • Under- and Uncorrected Significant Refractive Errors

Interventions

DEVICE

spectacles

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • British Council for Prevention of Blindness

    collaborator OTHER

  • Tanzanian Society for the Blind

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Clare Gilbert, Reader · London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
0 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2004-01-31
Completion
2004-08-31

Countries

  • Tanzania

Study Locations

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