NCT00347620

Improving Vision and Quality of Life in the Nursing Home

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 400 (planned)
• Sponsor: University of Alabama at Birmingham · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The primary purpose of this study is to evaluate whether interventions to improve vision in nursing home residents have an impact on residents' health-related quality of life. The interventions being evaluated are correction of refractive error (near-sightedness, far-sightedness, presbyopia) and cataract surgery.

Detailed description

The purpose of this project is two-fold: 1.) to establish the psychometric properties of the Nursing Home Vision-Specific Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) instrument, and; 2.) to evaluate the responsiveness of this instrument. Responsiveness will be assessed in two independent preliminary prospective intervention evaluations. The first responsiveness evaluation will involve a new spectacle intervention and the second will involve first eye cataract surgery. In addition, we will examine the association between the responsiveness of this instrument, and changes in visual functioning measures and other demographic variables.

Conditions

• Refractive Error
• Cataract

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	spectacles
PROCEDURE	Cataract Surgery

Timeline

• Start date: 2000-08-01
• Completion: 2003-12-01
• First posted: 2006-07-04
• Last updated: 2010-03-15

Locations

17 sites across 1 country: United States