Vision Care Intervention for Lower Grade School Children in Taiwan

Chang Gung Medical Foundation

Status: Completed

Conditions: Myopia; Policy of Recess Outside Classroom; Outdoor Activity

Treatments: Behavioral: Outdoor activity in recess time

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02082743

C1020515

HPA-MHW-C1020515 (Other Grant/Funding Number)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is making use of school policy- recess outside classroom (ROC7-11) for increasing the time spent outdoor during recess and encouraging children spent time outdoor up to 11 hours in each week to investigate the vision change, myopia onset and progression in these schoolchildren.

Enrollment: 1,020 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 to 7 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

All the students in Grade 1

Exclusion criteria

No

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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1,020 participants in 2 patient groups

Outdoor activity

Experimental group

Description:

Outdoor activity in recess time

Treatment:

Behavioral: Outdoor activity in recess time

Control

No Intervention group