Effect of Mobile Communication on Congenital Ectopia Lentis Follow-up Adherence

Sun Yat-sen University

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Ectopia Lentis

Treatments: Other: smartphone application service and phone reminder

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05628129

IIT2022120

Details and patient eligibility

About

Regular follow-up is essential to successful management of congenital ectopia lentis, but it is often ignored by parents in China.

With rapid economic development, there are increasing numbers of mobile phone users that allow for communication applications to be used in medical care.

The investigators aimed to assess the potential of the smartphone application assisted medical service to increase patient compliance in attendance of follow-up after congenital ectopia lentis treatment.

Full description

Congenital ectopia lentis is a rare ophthalmic disease that seriously harms the physical and mental health of patients. Surgery is the only definite treatment at present. However, severe visual impairment is common in congenital ectopia lentis patients in China, and delayed presentation to hospital and late surgical treatment are found to be the major reasons.

In China, the messaging application WeChat has become the most popular communication tool. As most congenital ectopia lentis patients' parents are younger people, they are more likely to use technology, such as WeChat, in their daily lives. In addition, it allows ophthalmologists to utilize this communication application to relay health related information and reminders to patients. This makes it feasible to apply this smartphone application in improving attendance of follow-up visits.

In this trial, the investigators aimed to assess the potential of the smartphone application assisted medical service to increase patient compliance in attendance of follow-up after congenital ectopia lentis treatment.

Enrollment: 110 patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 18 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 1. Identified with congenital lens dislocation after surgery and age ≤ 18 years old; 2. Parents were able to access a mobile phone and communicate via the smartphone application (WeChat); 3. Agree to participate in this study and sign the informed consent.

Exclusion criteria

• 1. With Other ophthalmic diseases such as glaucoma, uveitis and corneal disease.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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110 participants in 2 patient groups

reminder intervention

Experimental group

Description:

On the basis of standard appointment, parents in intervention group will receive phone reminders at 4 days and 1 day before their scheduled appointments, and relevant scientific and educational knowledge will be relayed to them from the smartphone application at 1 week before appointments.

Treatment:

Other: smartphone application service and phone reminder

standard appointment

No Intervention group

Description:

Patients will be required to attend follow-up appointments at 1 week, 1 month, 3 months after surgery.