Effect of Spectacle Distribution to Myopic Secondary School Students in Rural Communities of Liaoning Province on Communities Academic High School Enrolment

NCT ID: NCT06714994

Last Updated: 2024-12-04

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

1980 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2024-12-01

Study Completion Date

2027-12-01

Brief Summary

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To determine whether provision of free spectacles to rural-dwelling Chinese secondary school students with visually-significant refractive error, together with a teacher-based incentive to promote their use, increases the proportion of children going on to academic high school, as opposed to dropping out or pursuing a vocational track.

Detailed Description

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The investigators propose in the current trial to significantly expand the evidence base for spectacle distribution as the most-effective health intervention to improve educational opportunities for China's under-served rural children and adolescents by assessing impact on school attainment.

Conditions

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Myopia

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Investigators

Study Groups

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Study group

Children at Intervention schools will receive free spectacles of a design they select, based on the child's measured refractive power and dispensed at school by the teacher. All students will be advised to wear glasses as much as possible during the study to ensure clear vision.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

free spectacles

Intervention Type DEVICE

Children will receive free spectacles

Control group

Children at Control schools will receive a glasses prescription and letter to the parents informing them of the refractive status of their child, with free glasses provided only at the end of the trial. Service offered to the Control group exceeds standard care, in that no school-based programs of vision screening and refraction currently exist in the study area, or in most of rural China.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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free spectacles

Children will receive free spectacles

Intervention Type DEVICE

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Year 1 students (about 12-15 years old) from schools in county-level cities and below in Liaoning Province
* Uncorrected (self-glasses) visual acuity of ≤6/12 in both eyes
* Refractive error meets cut-offs shown to be associated with significantly greater improvement in visual acuity when corrected7 (myopia ≤-0.75 diopters (D, or astigmatism (non-spherical refractive error) ≥1.00 D
* Best corrected visual acuity ≥6/7.5 in either eye

Exclusion Criteria

* Hyperopia ≥2.00 D
* Presence of visually-significant ocular condition besides refractive error
Minimum Eligible Age

11 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

16 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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He Eye Hospital

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Guanghao Qin

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

He Eye Hospital

Locations

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He Eye Specialist Hospital

Shenyang, , China

Site Status

Countries

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China

Central Contacts

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Guanghao Qin

Role: CONTACT

0086-18842664420

Jiayan Chen

Role: CONTACT

0086-18304019060

Facility Contacts

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Guanghao Qin

Role: primary

References

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Ma X, Zhou Z, Yi H, Pang X, Shi Y, Chen Q, Meltzer ME, le Cessie S, He M, Rozelle S, Liu Y, Congdon N. Effect of providing free glasses on children's educational outcomes in China: cluster randomized controlled trial. BMJ. 2014 Sep 23;349:g5740. doi: 10.1136/bmj.g5740.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 25249453 (View on PubMed)

Ma Y, Congdon N, Shi Y, Hogg R, Medina A, Boswell M, Rozelle S, Iyer M. Effect of a Local Vision Care Center on Eyeglasses Use and School Performance in Rural China: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Ophthalmol. 2018 Jul 1;136(7):731-737. doi: 10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2018.1329.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
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Other Identifiers

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SWISH

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id