The Effects of Regular Eye-training With a Mobile Device on Adult Patients With AMD

NCT ID: NCT03461393

Last Updated: 2018-03-20

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Total Enrollment

11 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2018-04-01

Study Completion Date

2018-05-15

Brief Summary

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Data collection and observation of changes within AMD patients performing visual training on mobile devices

Detailed Description

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In the presented study a training-therapy in patients with dry AMD war evaluated. The main focus was on remote visibility and thus better handling of daily activities.

Therapy with high-contrast administration is used for amblyopia in childhood. Furthermore, simulation therapy is used in hemianopsia in the adult age, in which case the lesion is usually not located in the eye.

This stimulating therapy for children and adult patients led to the hypothesis that this treatment could also improve AMD's situation. The entire visual procedure also shows the possibility of change even in adult patients.

The presented study investigates if regular training with a device that provides a moving grating-stimulus, the "Medical Eye Trainer" (MET), can improve the subjective perception of visual performance during typical activities of daily living. The aims of the study were not to show improvement of reading vision nor to show changes in the retinal structure.

Conditions

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AMD

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

COHORT

Study Time Perspective

RETROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

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Intervention Group

Repetitive Training with Medical-Eye-Trainer (MET)

Medical-Eye-Trainer (MET)

Intervention Type DEVICE

In order to provide a high contrast, dynamic visual stimulus to the patients, we developed an app that allowed the patients to regularly train with this stimulus. The app runs on Android (version 4.2 or later). The display of the screen is divided into 4 rows. In each row, a pattern of black and white squares is moving in one direction. The directions in subsequent rows are opposite to each other. Through the movement in the opposite direction a changing pattern is achieved in vertical and horizontal extension, the pattern alternates between continuous beams and a checkered pattern. The speed of the display on the monitor is 2 cm per second. In a comfortable viewing distance (ca. 40 cm), this leads to an angular velocity of approximately 3°/sec.

Interventions

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Medical-Eye-Trainer (MET)

In order to provide a high contrast, dynamic visual stimulus to the patients, we developed an app that allowed the patients to regularly train with this stimulus. The app runs on Android (version 4.2 or later). The display of the screen is divided into 4 rows. In each row, a pattern of black and white squares is moving in one direction. The directions in subsequent rows are opposite to each other. Through the movement in the opposite direction a changing pattern is achieved in vertical and horizontal extension, the pattern alternates between continuous beams and a checkered pattern. The speed of the display on the monitor is 2 cm per second. In a comfortable viewing distance (ca. 40 cm), this leads to an angular velocity of approximately 3°/sec.

Intervention Type DEVICE

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* All eyes had been affected by dry AMD for 3.5 years or more

Exclusion Criteria

None
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

105 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Krankenhaus der Barmherzigen Schwestern Ried

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Thomas Haslwanter

Prof.(FH) Dr.

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

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Krankenhaus der Barmherzigen Schwestern Ried

Ried im Innkreis, Upper Austria, Austria

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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Austria

Central Contacts

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Robert Hörantner, MD

Role: CONTACT

07752 602 ext. 0

Facility Contacts

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Robert Hörantner, MD

Role: primary

07752 602 ext. 0

Other Identifiers

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Uasua

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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