A (Prospective/Pilot) Study Evaluating the Effect of Cataract Surgery on the Daily Activity Levels of Elderly Patients

University of Pikeville

Status

Withdrawn

Conditions

Hypertension

Diabetes

Cataract

Obesity

Vision Disability

Treatments

Procedure: Cataract surgery

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04074954

CataractStudy1

Details and patient eligibility

About

To evaluate the effect of bilateral cataract surgery with intraocular lens implantation on the daily activity levels of elderly patients.

Full description

Cataract formation is a natural aging process that can be influenced by environmental factors such as exposure to ultra violet light and diet. Additionally, metabolic disorders, such as diabetes can lead to an earlier development of cataracts. As cataracts develop, a patient's vision can be affected. Reduced vision can limit activities of daily living and may even reduce a patient's mobility. When this occurs, cataract surgery should be considered to help restore a patient's vision. With the obesity and diabetic epidemic, proper diet and exercise is a major health initiative to control these diseases. If a patient's mobility is reduced as a result of poor vision - their ability to achieve adequate daily physical activity may also be effected. It is thought that improvement in vision may increase their activity levels and help combat these health issues. This study will investigate the activity level of patients before and after undergoing cataract surgery to determine how improved vision quality from removal of the natural lens inside the eye and replacement with an artificial intraocular lens effects their activity level.

Sex

All

Ages

60+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Patients undergoing bilateral cataract extraction by phacoemulisficatin with intraocular lens implantation and a planned bilateral distance vision target or patients with bilateral cataracts who are not having cataract surgery
Patients aged 60 years old or older
Best corrected visual acuity worse than 20/20 in each eye (meaning 20/25 or worse)
Non-comanged patients

Exclusion criteria

Greater than 0.76 D pre-operative corneal cylinder, if having cataract surgery without a planned astigmatism correction (I.e Limbal relaxing incision or Toric intraocular lens)
Planned implantation of a multifocal intraocular lens
Visual field defect which may reduce mobility
Wheel chair bound patients
Reduced vision from an ocular disease other than cataracts
Patients with significant dementia who are not able to fully comprehend the informed consent