The Effect of Education on Patient Compliance

United States Department of Veterans Affairs

Status and phase: Unknown; Phase 4

Conditions: Glaucoma

Treatments: Behavioral: American Academy of Ophthalmology Glaucoma Educational Tape

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT00376974

2006-1

Details and patient eligibility

About

With patient education, the compliance with glaucoma medications will increase.

Full description

We divided glaucoma patients into two groups; one watched a video the others did not. We checked their intraocular pressures before and after the intervention to see if there was a difference

Sex: Male

Ages: 40 to 90 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Glaucoma patients coming in for routine examination

Exclusion criteria

• If glaucoma was unstable and treatment regimen required a change

Trial design

Primary purpose: Educational/Counseling/Training

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind