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How Has Glaucoma Affected Your Quality of Life?

NCT01476644 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 161

Last updated 2019-11-15

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Summary

Hypothesis 1: Self-reported health-related quality of life decreases as vision impairment worsens in subjects with glaucoma.

Hypothesis 2: Changes in health-related quality of life are associated with changes in clinical measures of vision and performance-based measures of visual function.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Clinical evaluation

Biomicroscopy (look at front of eye), ophthalmoscopy (look at back of eye), visual acuity, visual fields, intraocular pressure, spectral domain optical coherence tomography, Pelli-Robson and the Spaeth-Richman Contrast Sensitivity tests

OTHER

Performance based measures

Compressed Assessment of Ability Related to Vision (CAARV) items include: 1) computerized motion detection; 2) recognizing facial expressions; 3) reading street signs; and 4) finding objects in a room

OTHER

Subjective measures of vision-related quality of life

National Eye Institute Visual Functioning Questionnaire 25 (NEI-VFQ-25) includes a series of questions pertaining to vision or feelings about a vision condition and the Modified Glaucoma Symptom Scale (MGSS) includes a series of questions pertaining to eye comfort.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • George L Spaeth, MD · Glaucoma Service, Wills Eye Institute

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
80 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-10-31
Primary Completion
2016-07-31
Completion
2017-06-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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