An interventional study of spectacles and Cataract Surgery in Refractive Error and Cataract, sponsored by University of Alabama at Birmingham. Completed at 17 sites in United States. Open to participants aged 60 Years and older, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2010-03-15.
Sponsored by University of Alabama at Birmingham · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment
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.
The purpose of this project is two-fold: 1.) to establish the psychometric properties of the Nursing Home Vision-Specific Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) instrument, and; 2.) to evaluate the responsiveness of this instrument. Responsiveness will be assessed in two independent preliminary prospective intervention evaluations. The first responsiveness evaluation will involve a new spectacle intervention and the second will involve first eye cataract surgery. In addition, we will examine the association between the responsiveness of this instrument, and changes in visual functioning measures and other demographic variables.
1,701 studies on the registry are indexed under Cataract; 230 are open to participants now.
This study's enrollment of 400 is above the median of 80 across 1,155 interventional studies indexed under Cataract.
Browse Cataract studies →University of Alabama at Birmingham is the lead sponsor of 1,396 studies on the registry; 284 are open to participants now.
Of its 156 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 124 (79%) have results posted.
Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.
Exclusion Criteria:
vision-targeted health-related quality of life
depression
generic health-related quality of life
functional independence
participation in group activities
physical activities
falls
life space
This study is completed, as verified in Mar 2010. You cannot join it, but the record below documents what was studied.
Get an email when the registry record changes — status, dates, results — or when someone posts here.
Sign in to followQuestions and observations about this study, from anyone following it. Not medical advice, and not a channel to the study team — their contact details are on the registry record.
Sign in to join the discussion. Reading takes no account; posting does. You choose a display name, and a pseudonym is the default.
Nothing here yet. If you are running this trial, taking part in it, or weighing whether to, this is the place to say so.
University of Alabama at Birmingham