An observational study in Glaucoma, Dry Eye Syndrome and Conjunctivitis, sponsored by Robin, Alan L., M.D.. Completed at 1 site in United States. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2009-07-22.
Sponsored by Robin, Alan L., M.D. · Observational
This study will be used to evaluate how patients put eye drops in their eyes and any problems that may arise from this activity. The information gathered will help identify common problems patients are having with putting in their eye medications. Then doctors can be better informed about the issues and provide better advice to their patients to overcome these problems.
Approximately 100 patients will take part in a one time procedure and survey as part of this project. After appropriate consent patients are asked to complete a short 2 page survey about themselves and their eye drops. Then a video recording will be made of the patient instilling eye drops in their habitual manner. The eye drops used will be sterile saline placed in either Travatan-like or Systane bottles to simulate the corresponding prescribed medication. The videos will be graded for instillation technique and combined with scoring of survey answers.
Patients will be asked to instill the drops to their left eye with their dominant hand as we expect this to be most difficult. Patients with severe (>20/200) vision loss will instill drops into their better seeing eye.
1,818 studies on the registry are indexed under Glaucoma; 231 are open to participants now.
This study's enrollment of 200 is above the median of 103 across 454 observational studies indexed under Glaucoma.
Browse Glaucoma studies →Robin, Alan L., M.D. is the lead sponsor of 6 studies on the registry; none are open to participants now.
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173 subjects enrolled and 222 video recordings were made. Ages ranged from 21-94 years old (mean:67 yrs) and subjects were 55% female and 70% caucasian.
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Robin, Alan L., M.D.