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Village Integrated Eye Workers Trial

NCT01969786 · Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 223671

Last updated 2025-04-07

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Summary

VIEW is a community-randomized trial designed to determine whether it is possible to prevent corneal ulcers on a large scale. The study compares the incidence of corneal ulceration between villages in which volunteers are trained to diagnose and treat corneal abrasions and villages which receive no intervention.

Conditions

  • Corneal Ulcer

Interventions

OTHER

Corneal ulcer prevention program

The corneal ulcer prevention intervention consists of training female community health volunteers to diagnose corneal abrasions and to treat the abrasions with 1% itraconazole and 1% chloramphenicol ointments 3 times a day for 3 days.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Tom M Lietman · University of California San Francisco Proctor Foundation

  • Krisianne M Aromin · University of California San Francisco Proctor Foundation

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-02-28
Primary Completion
2026-01-31
Completion
2026-01-31

Countries

  • Nepal

Study Locations

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