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

Myopia Clinical Trial

Official title:

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

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02647411
• Other study ID #: ARVO R1 2016 1
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: November 11, 2015
• Last updated: January 5, 2016
• Start date: August 2015
• Est. completion date: November 2015

Study information

• Verified date: January 2016
• Source: Instituto de Olhos de Goiania
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Brazil: Ethics Committee
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

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.

Description:

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

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 16971
• Est. completion date: November 2015
• Est. primary completion date: November 2015
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 2 Years to 40 Years

Eligibility

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"

Study Design

Time Perspective: Retrospective

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Myopia

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Instituto de Olhos de Goiania

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Analisys of the percentage of patients with myopia in an ophthalmologic hospital in Goiânia - Goiás based on two prevalence studies made in the same hospital in different periods of time.	Comparison of the prevalence of myopia from data collected in two scientific studies carried out in the same ophthalmologic hospital in different periods of time, that evaluated among other factors the refractive errors of the participants.; In the first study were examined 16.806 students from municipal schools of Goiania during the period October 1995 to December 2000. In the second study there were selected 165 children from 2 to 14 years old who were referred to the Institute of Goiânia eyes, by the "Projeto Boa Visão" within the school environment. The "Projeto Boa Visão" aims to identify vision problems related to refraction.	up to 2 months	Yes