Increased Prevalence of Myopia in a Ophthalmologic Hospital in Goiânia - Goiás

NCT ID: NCT02647411

Last Updated: 2016-01-06

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Total Enrollment

16971 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2015-08-31

Study Completion Date

2015-11-30

Brief Summary

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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

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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

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Myopia

Study Design

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Study Time Perspective

RETROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

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Projeto Boa Visão

Review of records between 1995 and 2000, in totality of 16.806 patients between 2 and 40 years old

No interventions assigned to this group

Projeto Olhar Brasil

Review of records between March and September 2014, in totality of 163 patients between 6 and 18 years old

No interventions assigned to this group

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Patients between 2 and 20 years assessment of Project "Olhar Brasil"
* Patients between 2 and 40 years assessment of Project "Boa visão"

Exclusion Criteria

* The patients wasn't assessment of Project "Olhar Brasil"
* The patients wasn't assessment of Project "Boa Visão"
Minimum Eligible Age

2 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

40 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Instituto de Olhos de Goiania

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Other Identifiers

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ARVO R1 2016 1

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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