NCT01670643

Reading Performance With a Video Magnifier

The Effect of Video Camera Magnifier Use on Reading

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 120 (actual)
• Sponsor: Mary Lou Jackson · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 40 Years – 90 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The most common goal for patients with vision loss who present for vision rehabilitation is to be able to read. The video magnifier (a device which combines a video camera and a screen to view the print being magnified) is the device which most often allows low-vision individuals to read successfully for extended periods of time. Previous studies on the outcomes of vision rehabilitation have not identified which components of the vision rehabilitation are effective. The hypothesis of this project is that providing a video camera magnifier, with basic training in operating the device, will allow patients to enhance both objective reading ability and subjective report of reading competence.

Detailed description

Patients will be given a video magnifier at initial consultation or at the end of vision rehabilitation

Conditions

• Macular Degeneration

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Video camera magnifier	reading with video camera magnifier

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-01-01
• Primary completion: 2010-04-01
• Completion: 2011-02-01
• First posted: 2012-08-22
• Last updated: 2017-03-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States