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Problem Solving Training and Low Vision Rehabilitation

NCT00545220 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 430

Last updated 2016-02-19

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Summary

Vision loss can result in feelings of frustration, helplessness, anxiety, depression, and anger, which compromise a person's activities of everyday living. While emotional distress may resolve in some persons without intervention, unmanaged and persistent distress places the person at risk for continued decrements in health status and the potential development of more severe conditions (i.e., depression, poor health outcomes). Persons with low vision will be recruited and randomly assigned to either an innovative, problem-solving training (PST) intervention group designed specifically for persons with low vision or a sham intervention/control group. Primary and secondary outcomes will be assessed at baseline prior to intervention and at 3 month follow-up, 7 month follow-up, 12 month follow-up, and 24 month follow-up by a research interviewer masked to participants' randomization. This project will: (1) demonstrate how specified physical and emotional outcomes of persons with low vision change across time, (2) evaluate the effectiveness of a PST intervention that will be delivered to persons with low vision; and (3) identify persons with low vision who are at risk for adverse emotional and health outcomes.

Conditions

  • Low Vision

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

problem-solving training

BEHAVIORAL

sham intervention

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Eye Institute (NEI)

    collaborator NIH

  • University of Alabama at Birmingham

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Laura Dreer, PhD · University of Alabama at Birmingham

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
19 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2007-10-31
Primary Completion
2015-12-31
Completion
2015-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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