Measurement of Eye Movements While Reading a German Text

Completed

• Conditions: Healthy Children
• Interventions: Diagnostic Test: reading of a text

• Registration Number: NCT04642781
• Lead Sponsor: University of Basel

Brief Summary

To establish normative value for reading parameters in healthy children of primary school age and in grades 2-5.

Detailed Description

Following initial assessment of feasibility, recruitment is expanded to children attending grades 2-5 recruited from 4 different primary schools in German speaking Switzerland. Two texts of The New International Reading Speed Test (IReST) of similar difficulty are presented on a laptop in randomized order. Children are asked to read the text aloud while eye movements are recorded with an eye tracking bar. The following parameters are analysed: reading speed (words/minute), number of saccades, number of fixations.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2018-03-30
• Primary Completion: 2019-12-30
• Study Completion: 2020-07-30
• Study First Submitted: 2020-11-18
• Study First Submitted QC: 2020-11-18
• Study First Posted: 2020-11-24
• Status Verified: 2023-06
• Last Update Submitted: 2023-06-21
• Last Update Posted: 2023-06-23

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 127

Inclusion Criteria

• 8-13 years
• child consent
• parental consent

Exclusion Criteria

• unability to read

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
healthy children aged 8-13years (schoolgrade 2-5)	reading of a text	Primary school children are asked to read a German text presented on a laptop screen

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Reading speed	21 months	words read per minute
number of saccades and fixations	21 months	how stable are the eyes while reading out loud

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University Basel, University Eye Hospital Basel; 🇨🇭 Basel, Switzerland