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

Instituto de Olhos de Goiania

Status: Completed

Conditions: Myopia

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02647411

ARVO R1 2016 1

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Full 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

Enrollment: 16,971 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 2 to 40 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

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"

Trial design

16,971 participants in 2 patient groups

Projeto Boa Visão

Description:

Review of records between 1995 and 2000, in totality of 16.806 patients between 2 and 40 years old

Projeto Olhar Brasil

Description:

Review of records between March and September 2014, in totality of 163 patients between 6 and 18 years old