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NCT number NCT05030103
Other study ID # SMART2
Secondary ID
Status Not yet recruiting
Phase N/A
First received
Last updated
Start date October 1, 2023
Est. completion date December 31, 2031

Study information

Verified date February 2023
Source Reis Augenklinik AG
Contact Alexander Reis, Prof. Dr.
Phone +4233990424
Email info@augenklinik.li
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority
Study type Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The last decades have seen a significant increase in myopia in children and young adults. Possible cause: increased near-work (school, computer, smartphone). Rationale: Reading glasses support the accommodative effort of the eyes. By wearing reading glasses, there is less interference with the young eye´s physiological axial growth despite increased near-work. Main objective: does the use of reading glasses during near-work in children and adolescents reduce the incidence of myopia.


Description:

In myopia (nearsightedness), the eyeball is relatively to long, which means that the image produced by the cornea and lens is displayed in front of the retina. The axial length of an adult eye is on average around 23 millimeters. Every millimeter of additional length must be corrected with a -2.75 diopter lens. In newborns, the eyeball is about 18 millimeters long. It is believed that there are feedback loops during childhood and adolescence to control the growth of the eye. Epidemiological studies show that myopia is an increasing health problem. There is a growing body of epidemiological evidence that environmental factors can influence the development of myopia. The link between the environment and myopia lies in the quality of the retinal image. Experimental studies in various species have shown that if the retinal image is missing, eye growth is disturbed. Of even greater importance for the development of myopia is the knowledge that the primate eye can change its growth, depending on the strength and type of blurring of the retinal image: if lenses are placed in front of the eye during development, the eye growth changes in such a way that a sharp retinal image is achieved through these lenses. If divergent lenses are placed in front of the eye, the eye becomes longer, and if convergent lenses are placed in front of it, it becomes correspondingly shorter. So myopia is the result of a failure in these emmetropization mechanisms. The positive correlation of myopia with a higher level of education suggests that increased close work interferes with emmetropization. The growth in length of the eye changes in such a way that it adapts to this requirement: the eye adjusts itself to the close work: it becomes myopic. Myopia is thus possibly a physiological adaptation to increased near work with the aim of improving the quality of the retinal image during close work. However, this can only be achieved at the expense of the image quality when looking into the distance. The investigators submitted a study on this subject to the Cantonal Ethics Committee of the Canton of Zurich in 2003: "An open, prospective, randomized study on the use of reading glasses in children with normal vision to prevent myopia" Unique Protocol ID: FR-2005-01-01 Approval Status: Approved Approval Number: KEK-StV-Nr. 19/03 This was and is so far the only clinical study that examined the effect of reading glasses on the development of myopia in emmetropic (normally sighted) children and has led to Patent No: US 8,511,819 B2, Aug. 20, 2013 "Prevention of myopia acquisition in children and young adults using reading glasses"


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Not yet recruiting
Enrollment 1500
Est. completion date December 31, 2031
Est. primary completion date September 30, 2031
Accepts healthy volunteers Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Gender All
Age group 6 Years to 25 Years
Eligibility Inclusion Criteria: 1. Children of both sexes from the age of 6 2. Children whose parents have read and signed the declaration of consent 3. Spherical equivalent of refraction <-0.5 dpt. 4. Distant vision in both eyes without correction 1.0 5. Willingness to wear reading glasses 6. Possibility of a five-year follow-up Exclusion Criteria: 1. Children who already wear glasses 2. Astigmatism over 1.5 diopters 3. Anisometropy greater than 1.5 diopters 4. Eye diseases that affect refraction development

Study Design


Related Conditions & MeSH terms


Intervention

Device:
Reading glasses, +2.0 diopters
The participants in the glasses-group are asked to wear the reading glasses during near-work.

Locations

Country Name City State
Liechtenstein Reis Augenklinik AG Bendern

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
Reis Augenklinik AG

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Liechtenstein, 

Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Primary Development of myopia Number of participants which develop myopia within the follow-up period of five years Five years
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