Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT02647411
Increased Prevalence of Myopia in a Ophthalmologic Hospital in Goiânia - Goiás
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- —
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 16,971 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Instituto de Olhos de Goiania · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 2 Years – 40 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the increased prevalence of myopia among patients in different periods in an ophthalmologic hospital in Goiania. There has been an increase of myopia prevalence around the world especially in some Asian countries. The investigators intend to analyze if this growing tendency is also present in our hospital, and if it exist how much is this growth.
Detailed description
There were compared data collected in two scientific studies carried out in the same ophthalmologic hospital in different periods of time, they evaluated among other factors, the refractive errors of the participants, from this data there were compared the percentage of patients with myopia between the two studies. And analysed how much was the grown of myopia
Conditions
Timeline
- Start date
- 2015-08-01
- Primary completion
- 2015-11-01
- Completion
- 2015-11-01
- First posted
- 2016-01-06
- Last updated
- 2016-01-06
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT02647411. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.