NCT04010422

Ocular Function in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Evaluating the Ocular Function of Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorder: Interrelationship Between Blinking Reflex and Cornea Innervation.

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 100 (estimated)
• Sponsor: National Taiwan University Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study will investigate the visual function in individuals with ASD, with a particular focus on the ocular surface condition and visual function assessment.

Detailed description

Anomalies in visual information processing can have a major effect on the life quality of individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), including eye gaze abnormality, higher frequency of refractive errors (e.g., astigmatism, hypermetropia, and anisometropia), strabismus, abnormal blinking rate, disturbed eye movements that may be associated with or aggravated social communication deficits of ASD. However, little is known about the ocular surface conditions. This study will investigate the visual function in individuals with ASD, with a particular focus on the ocular surface condition. We plan to recruit 50 adults with ASD and 50 age-/sex-matched typically developing controls in this project, and perform visual function assessment.

Conditions

• Autism
• Ocular Surface Disease

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIAGNOSTIC_TEST	no intervention	no intervention

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-05-15
• Primary completion: 2023-12-31
• Completion: 2023-12-31
• First posted: 2019-07-08
• Last updated: 2023-04-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan