Efficacy of Chinese Ocular Exercise on Visual Acuity and Ocular Accommodation in Myopic Teenager

NCT01756287 | Completed DMC

• 1 other identifier: 2011CB504601
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 190
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

To assess whether Chinese ocular exercise is effective in altering distant and near visual acuity, ocular accommodation and visual symptoms in myopic teenager, and thus might have the possibility of slowing myopia progression in teenager through a weak but long-term effect.

Conditions

Myopia

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Distant and near visual acuity

  Before and after the intervention immediately, about 5 minutes

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Ocular accommodation

  Before and after the intervention immediately, about 5 minutes

Other Outcomes (1)

• Self evaluation of the improvement after the intervention

  Before and after the intervention immediately, about 5 minutes

Study Arms (3)

Standardized Chinese ocular exercise

EXPERIMENTAL

The participants are trained with standardized Chinese ocular exercise which contains accurate positions of acupuncture points and appropriate pressure on the points.

Other: Chinese ocular exercise

Nonstandardized ocular exercise

SHAM COMPARATOR

The participants are trained with nonstandardized ocular exercise performed on wrong positions where no acupuncture points at all.

Other: Chinese ocular exercise

Eye closure

NO INTERVENTION

The participants are told to close eyes and don't do ocular exercise at all.

Interventions

Chinese ocular exercise OTHER

A kind of massage around the acupuncture points around the eye.

Nonstandardized ocular exercise; Standardized Chinese ocular exercise

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 10 Years - 16 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17)

You may qualify if:

• Visual acuity: 20/20 or better in each eye;
• Spherical error ranging from +0.5 D to -6.0 D and astigmatism less than 1.5 D in each eye, anisometropia less than 1.0 D between the two eyes Contact lens
• No strabismus, amblyopia and any other ocular or systematic diseases that may affect refractive development

You may not qualify if:

• Currently using other interventions to control myopia progression (acupuncture, massage, drugs, ear needles and so on)
• Unable to cooperate with the ocular examination and questionnaire survey

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Beijing Tongren Hospital: lead

Study Sites (1)

Shi-Ming Li

Anyang, Henan, 455000, China

Location

Related Publications (1)

• Li SM, Kang MT, Peng XX, Li SY, Wang Y, Li L, Yu J, Qiu LX, Sun YY, Liu LR, Li H, Sun X, Millodot M, Wang N. Efficacy of Chinese eye exercises on reducing accommodative lag in school-aged children: a randomized controlled trial. PLoS One. 2015 Mar 5;10(3):e0117552. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0117552. eCollection 2015.

  PMID: 25742161 DERIVED

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Myopia

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Refractive Errors; Eye Diseases

Study Officials

• Ningli Wang, MD, PhD

  Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: TRIPLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT, INVESTIGATOR, OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Dr.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: December 20, 2012
• First Posted: December 25, 2012
• Study Start: August 1, 2012
• Primary Completion: November 1, 2013
• Study Completion: November 1, 2013
• Last Updated: June 18, 2014

Record last verified: 2014-06

Locations

CN (1)