Assessment of tear breakup time when wearing lipid-laden daily disposable contact lenses
- Conditions
- Contact lens discomfortEye - Diseases / disorders of the eye
- Registration Number
- ACTRN12623000337673
- Lead Sponsor
- niversity of New South Wales
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 16
•Between 18-40 years old
•Able to read and comprehend English and give informed consent as demonstrated by signing a record of informed consent.
•Habitual contact lens wear and neophytes
•Refractive correction of -0.50 to -15.50, -0.25 to -1.75 and +0.50 to +1.75 diopters for myopia, astigmatism, and hyperopia
•Willing to wear the study contact lenses a minimum of 8 hours per day [in all three rounds].
•Have health and ocular health findings which would not prevent the participant from safely wearing contact lenses
•Willing to not use any rewetting eye drops for the duration of the study.
•Willing to refrain from swimming, showering and/or sleeping while wearing the contact lenses for the duration of the study
•Willing to undergo the tests as outlined in the information statement.
•Any active corneal infection, allergies
•Acute or sub-acute inflammation of the anterior chamber,
•Pregnancy (or planning pregnancy), lactating/breast feeding, suffering from the systemic diseases Sjögren’s syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, diabetes and thyroid eye disease or taking the medications atropine, antazoline, azatadine or antihistamines such as cetirizine, brompheniramine
•People who have undergone refractive surgery
•People with neurological disorders such as epilepsy
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
- Secondary Outcome Measures
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