Randomised Controlled Trial of Efficacy of Optometric Interventions

Completed

• Conditions: Eye Diseases: Vision disorders; Eye Diseases; Vision disorders

• Registration Number: ISRCTN77268814
• Lead Sponsor: Record Provided by the NHSTCT Register - 2005 Update - Department of Health (UK)

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2005-09-30
• Last Update Posted: 13 January 2015

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: Not specified
• Target Recruitment: 0

Inclusion Criteria

Subjects meeting the following criteria will be selected, regardless of whether they have any existing refractive correction. All subjects meeting the criteria will be invited to participate.
1. Hypermetropes of age <40years with either retinoscopy or subjective refraction in the better eye in the range +0.75 to +1.50D
2. Patients aged 40-45 years with a subjective near correction in the range +0.50 to +1.50D
3. Astigmats of any age with astigmatism (subjectively) in the better eye in the range 0.50 to 1.50DC
4. Patients of any age with horizontal heterophoria that may be decompensated
5. Patients of any age with a vertical heterophoria either on the Mallett unit or dissociation test of >0.5^

Exclusion Criteria

No specific patient exclusion criteria

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Process measure: does prescribing optometric correction for marginal refractive and orthoptic anomalies benefit patients in terms of improved performance on the Wilkins Rate of Reading test?

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
ot provided at time of registration