Guangzhou Outdoor Activity Longitudinal Study

NCT ID: NCT00848900

Last Updated: 2010-11-22

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

2000 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2009-04-30

Study Completion Date

2012-07-31

Brief Summary

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The purpose of this study is to assess whether outdoor activities are effective in preventing the development and progression of juvenile-onset myopia in Chinese children.

Detailed Description

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1. To determine if increased engagement in outdoor activities reduces the development and progression of myopia in Chinese school children.
2. To identify the risk factors associated with the development and progression of juvenile-onset myopia.
3. To characterize the interaction between refractive error and education.

Conditions

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Myopia

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Control

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Outdoor activity

Adding 1 hour outdoor time into school curricula

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Outdoor activity

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Adding 1 hour outdoor time into school curricula

Interventions

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Outdoor activity

Adding 1 hour outdoor time into school curricula

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* All the students in Grade 1

Exclusion Criteria

* No
Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Sun Yat-sen University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, ZOC

Principal Investigators

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Mingguang He, PhD, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-sen University

Locations

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Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center

Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Site Status

Countries

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China

References

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He M, Xiang F, Zeng Y, Mai J, Chen Q, Zhang J, Smith W, Rose K, Morgan IG. Effect of Time Spent Outdoors at School on the Development of Myopia Among Children in China: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA. 2015 Sep 15;314(11):1142-8. doi: 10.1001/jama.2015.10803.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 26372583 (View on PubMed)

Zhou Z, Morgan IG, Chen Q, Jin L, He M, Congdon N. Disordered sleep and myopia risk among Chinese children. PLoS One. 2015 Mar 26;10(3):e0121796. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0121796. eCollection 2015.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 25811755 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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GOAL2009

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id