The Role of Occupational Therapy for Improving Medication Management for Persons With AMD, DR and Glaucoma

MCPHS University

Status and phase: Enrolling; Early Phase 1

Conditions: Age-Related Macular Degeneration

Treatments: Combination Product: occupational therapy interventions for low vision care

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06593405

IRB-2023-2024-84

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if education about additional task lighting, enhanced contrast, enlarged print instructions, smart apps and organizational strategies will improve medication management skills. The main questions it aims to answer are:

Does additional task lighting, enhanced contrast, enlarged print instructions, smart apps and organizational strategies improve medication management skills, reduce errors and improve functional use of remaining vision for this task?

Participants will:

Oftentimes, the client is unaware of these strategies which may improve occupational performance during a valued activity. Clients with AMD, DR or Glaucoma who choose to receive the one hour OT service will be provided with 1:1 education regarding the devices and strategies that may improve their ability to perform medication management skills.

Full description

Many clients with low vision are unaware of OT, or the services OT can provide to assist with low vision needs. Clients with AMD, DR or Glaucoma who choose to receive the one hour OT service will be provided with 1:1 education regarding the devices and strategies that may improve their ability to perform medication management skills. Clients will complete the MediCog and the Revised-Self-Report Assessment of Functional Visual Performance (R-SRAFVP) assessment tools with the assistance of the OT. These tools will inform the therapist to areas of client needs and allow for focus on intervention to support these challenges. Follow up in OT 4 weeks post intervention will allow therapist to reassess the effectiveness of interventions provided via a phone or in-person interview as well as provide the assessments again. Second set of data from these assessments will be compared to initial findings obtained.

Enrollment: 50 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 50 to 100 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Clients with AMD, DR or Glaucoma
• Clients who choose to participate will allow their deidentified data to be evaluated for outcomes.

Exclusion criteria

• Clients with other age related eye diseases other than AMD, DR or Glaucoma.
• Clients who do not wish to participate in this study.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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50 participants in 1 patient group

Receiving OT interventions

Experimental group

Description:

All participants will receive all OT interventions

Treatment:

Combination Product: occupational therapy interventions for low vision care