Modelling and Evaluation of a Community-oriented mHealth-based Screening and Promotional Programme for Improving Eye Health in Iran
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Phase 3
- Status
- Completed
- Enrollment
- 3,300
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Eye care utilization: being visited/treated by an eye care professional
Study Overview
Brief Summary
This study is a community trial that aims to establish and evaluate an mHealth screening and promotional tool for improving eye health in Iran. Sampling frame is a region in Tehran province with around 1 million sub-urban and rural inhabitants. investigators have obtained the list of health centers and their underserved population from the health authorities. In this region, health services are delivered through rural health houses, urban health posts and overhead health centers (221 units in total). investigators choose 27 units using cluster random sampling method with a probability proportional to size strategy, then investigators randomly assign them into three arms (explained below). The interventions will be at community level with the community as the unit of randomization.
Arm 1- Training of the Primary Health Care (PHC) workers + PHC workers will be empowered with the mHealth tool to monitor, screen and promote community members Arm 2- PHC system will be strengthened with health promotion and screening programmes (same content as the mHealth tool) and PHC workers will deliver eye health messages and screening tests by the conventional facilities.
Arm 3: Control group: only observation and registering of routine care
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel
- Primary Purpose
- Prevention
- Masking
- None
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 50 Years to — (Adult, Older Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- Yes
Inclusion Criteria
- •Inclusion criteria were living in one of the non-institutionalized urban or rural residential areas in one of the survey area, being resident in the same address for at least 6 months during the year before the enrolment, age 50 and over and Iranian nationality.
Exclusion Criteria
- Not provided
Arms & Interventions
routine care
Screening program including 2 consecutive tests
Intervention: Screening program including 2 consecutive tests (Diagnostic Test)
Screening program with mobile health
Intervention: Screening program with mobile health (Diagnostic Test)
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Eye care utilization: being visited/treated by an eye care professional
Time Frame: 6-12 months
Questionnaire based on closed questions
Secondary Outcomes
- Based on Logarithm Minimum Angle of Resolution, LogMAR. Visual acuity will be presented in range (minimum to maximum). Higher value of visual acuity represents the worsened outcome.(At baseline)
- fundus imaging(At baseline)
- fundus imaging by fundus photography (Visucam Pro NM; Carl Zeiss Meditec AG, Germany)(At baseline)
- Visual acuity(At baseline)
Investigators
Zahra Rabbani Khah
Head of ophthalmic research center
Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences