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Project inCharge: Increasing the Rate of Comprehensive Eye Care Utilization by Older African Americans Through Community-Based Eye Health Education Program

NCT00591110 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 177

Last updated 2012-06-28

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Summary

The study design is a randomized intervention evaluation. Ten senior centers in predominately African American communities in the Birmingham, Alabama will be selected as sites for the educational intervention. Five centers will be randomly assigned to receive an educational intervention communicating practical information about vision, eye conditions and eye care as pertinent to the older African American population. The other five centers will serve as social-contact controls, where participants will receive an engaging information session on a non-health related topic. The primary outcome of interest is the change in percentage of persons receiving comprehensive eye care from pre- to post- intervention. The secondary outcomes are the process outcomes of improvement in knowledge, attitudes, and values about vision, eye conditions, and eye care.

Conditions

  • Eye Disease
  • Eye Care
  • Vision

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Eye care education

Participants will receive an educational intervention communicating practical information about vision, eye conditions and eye care pertinent to the older African American population

BEHAVIORAL

Social-contact control

Participants receive an engaging informational session on a non-health related topic

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Pfizer

    collaborator INDUSTRY

  • University of Alabama at Birmingham

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

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

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
60 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-06-30
Primary Completion
2009-03-31
Completion
2009-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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