Efficacy Comparative Study Between Tears Again®, Opticol® and Optive®

Hospital de Sao Sebastiao

Status: Completed

Conditions: Dry Eye Syndrome

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00893243

HSS-01-08

Details and patient eligibility

About

Primary Purpose:

• To compare the efficacy in treating dry eye syndrome in contact lens wearers or computer users of Tears Again® versus Opticol® versus Optive®

Secondary Purpose:

• Subjective evaluation of symptomatology
• Evaluation of preference in different kind of administration - spray versus monodoses versus multi-doses

Enrollment: 27 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 55 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Informed Consent signed
• Age >18 years and < 55 years
• Daily wearer of soft contact lens and/or daily (> 4 hours/day) computer user

Exclusion criteria

• Dry eye Syndrome other than of evaporative etiology, according to DEWS
• Ocular or systemic disease that can affect the normal tear film
• Pregnancy or pregnancy risk (no contraceptive method), lactation

Trial design

27 participants in 6 patient groups

1Tears Again/Control

2Opticol/Control

3Optive/Control

4Tears Again/Opticol

5Tears Again/Optive

6Opticol/Optive