Effect of lipid loaded daily disposable contact lenses on tear film break up
- Conditions
- contact lens related discomfortEye - Diseases / disorders of the eye
- Registration Number
- ACTRN12624000744550
- Lead Sponsor
- niversity of New South Wales
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot yet recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 10
•Aged 18-65 years old (inclusive)
•Able to read and comprehend English and give informed consent as demonstrated by signing a record of informed consent.
•Experience contact lens wearers.
•Refractive correction of -0.50DS to -10.00DS or +0.50 to +1.75DS (inclusive), with <1.00DC (cylinder power) (to ensure contact lens powers available to provide adequate vision correction).
•Willing to wear the study contact lenses for approx. 8 hours per day [at all nine visits].
Have health and ocular health findings which would not prevent you from safely wearing contact lenses.
•Willing to not use any rewetting eye drops for the during study lens wearing days.
•Willing to refrain from swimming, showering and/or sleeping while wearing the study contact lenses for the duration of the study.
•Willing to undergo the tests as outlined in the information statement.
•Any active corneal infection or allergies
•Any inflammation of the surface of the eye
•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 surgery on the front part of the eye
•People with epilepsy
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
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- Secondary Outcome Measures
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