NCT04261868

Virtual Reality Game Playing in Amblyopia Therapy

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Hamideh Sabbaghi · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 4 Years – 10 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Background: "Amblyopia is a neurodevelopmental disorder in both monocular and binocular functions and it extends even beyond the primary visual integration centers", therefore, amblyopia is not a "lazy eye" but it is a "lazy brain". Purpose: The investigators aimed to compare the visual outcome of occlusion therapy with virtual reality game playing as a new therapy on amblyopic children. Methods: This RCT was performed on 50 children with unilateral amblyopia ,4 to 10 years old. They were randomly divided to case and control (each= 25) groups. case group were trained binocularly using the virtual reality games through head set for one hour a day, 5 days in a week for 4 to 6 weeks. Controls occluded their non- amblyopic eyes, 2, 4 and 6 hours for mild (0.2 to 0.3 LogMAR), moderate (0.3 to 0.6 LogMAR) and severe (BCVA \< 0.6 LogMAR) amblyopia, respectively.

Conditions

• Amblyopia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Virtual Reality	New treatment for amblyopia therapy using playing games
OTHER	Patching	Patching

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-03-11
• Primary completion: 2021-05-11
• Completion: 2021-06-11
• First posted: 2020-02-10
• Last updated: 2020-02-10