Vision Care Intervention for Lower Grade School Children in Taiwan

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Myopia; Outdoor Activity; Policy of Recess Outside Classroom
• Interventions: Behavioral: Outdoor activity in recess time

• Registration Number: NCT02082743
• Lead Sponsor: Chang Gung Memorial Hospital

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is making use of school policy- recess outside classroom (ROC7-11) for increasing the time spent outdoor during recess and encouraging children spent time outdoor up to 11 hours in each week to investigate the vision change, myopia onset and progression in these schoolchildren.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2013-10
• Study First Submitted: 2014-02-23
• Study First Submitted QC: 2014-03-06
• Study First Posted: 2014-03-10
• Primary Completion: 2015-02
• Study Completion: 2015-02
• Status Verified: 2015-07
• Last Update Submitted: 2015-08-05
• Last Update Posted: 2015-08-07

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 1020

Inclusion Criteria

All the students in Grade 1

Exclusion Criteria

No

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Outdoor activity	Outdoor activity in recess time	Outdoor activity in recess time

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Cycloplegic refraction	1 year

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Axial length	1 year

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Department of Ophthamology, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung university College of Medicine; 🇨🇳 Kaohsiung, Taiwan