Smart-TV Application for the Self Examination of the Distance Visual Acuity in Macular Edema Patients

Democritus University of Thrace

Status

Unknown

Conditions

Refractive Errors

Low Vision

Macular Edema

Treatments

Diagnostic Test: Distance visual acuity assessment via ETDRS chart

Diagnostic Test: DDiVAT Testing

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04739137

ES1/Th5/21-1-2021

Details and patient eligibility

About

Primary objective of our study is the development and validation of an application for smart-TVs for the self-examination of the distant visual acuity of patients diagnosed with macular edema.

Full description

Present study aims to develop and validate an application installed in Smart-TVs. This application will be referred to patients suffering from macular edema, allowing the self-examination of the patient in terms of distant visual acuity. The development of a simple but reliable way of self-examination of distant visual acuity would bring beneficial results in the overall management of these patients as significantly would reduce the flows to the outpatient ophthalmology clinics of the NSS Hospitals, would serve the purposes of the social distancing imposed by the current state of the pandemic but also any analogous situation and would help the patient to be vigilant and actively involved in the management of his disease.

Enrollment

300 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

40 to 85 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria