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Improving Vision and Quality of Life in the Nursing Home

NCT00347620 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 400

Last updated 2010-03-15

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The primary purpose of this study is to evaluate whether interventions to improve vision in nursing home residents have an impact on residents' health-related quality of life. The interventions being evaluated are correction of refractive error (near-sightedness, far-sightedness, presbyopia) and cataract surgery.

Conditions

  • Refractive Error
  • Cataract

Interventions

DEVICE

spectacles

PROCEDURE

Cataract Surgery

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Retirement Research Foundation

    collaborator OTHER

  • National Institute on Aging (NIA)

    collaborator NIH

  • National Eye Institute (NEI)

    collaborator NIH

  • Research to Prevent Blindness

    collaborator OTHER

  • EyeSight Foundation of Alabama

    collaborator OTHER

  • Pearle Vision Foundation

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • University of Alabama at Birmingham

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Cynthia Owsley, PhD, MSPH · University of Alabama at Birmingham

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
60 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2000-08-31
Completion
2003-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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