NCT00591110

Project inCharge: Increasing the Rate of Comprehensive Eye Care Utilization by Older African Americans Through Community-Based Eye Health Education Program

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 177 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Alabama at Birmingham · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The study design is a randomized intervention evaluation. Ten senior centers in predominately African American communities in the Birmingham, Alabama will be selected as sites for the educational intervention. Five centers will be randomly assigned to receive an educational intervention communicating practical information about vision, eye conditions and eye care as pertinent to the older African American population. The other five centers will serve as social-contact controls, where participants will receive an engaging information session on a non-health related topic. The primary outcome of interest is the change in percentage of persons receiving comprehensive eye care from pre- to post- intervention. The secondary outcomes are the process outcomes of improvement in knowledge, attitudes, and values about vision, eye conditions, and eye care.

Conditions

• Eye Disease
• Eye Care
• Vision

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Eye care education	Participants will receive an educational intervention communicating practical information about vision, eye conditions and eye care pertinent to the older African American population
BEHAVIORAL	Social-contact control	Participants receive an engaging informational session on a non-health related topic

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-06-01
• Primary completion: 2009-03-01
• Completion: 2009-12-01
• First posted: 2008-01-11
• Last updated: 2012-06-28

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States