Slashing Two-wheeled Accidents by Leveraging Eyecare
STABLE
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interventional
625
1 country
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Brief Summary
STABLE is a stepped-wedge cluster randomised controlled trial and its primary aim is to determine whether the provision of spectacles for the correction of myopia can reduce the average number of crash-near-crash (CNC) events among eligible motorcycle drivers in Vietnam as measured under naturalistic driving conditions with the Data Acquisition System (DAS). STABLE is designed to assess the impact of vision correction on the safety of road users in a a Low and Middle income countries (LMIC) setting. A positive trial outcome would demonstrate the safety benefits of vision correction and would create pressure for tighter regulation of drivers' vision and the promotion of vision correction. The study will be conducted in the peri-urban universities in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and 625 students from five universities will be recruited into the trial. Before conducting the main trial, a pilot of 35 students will be recruited to test DAS and build CNC dictionary. Duration of the trial is 33 months from enrolment to completion of primary analysis, with 18 months for data collection. Study participants can be both male and female motorcycle drivers aged 18 to 23 years years with at least one year of driving experience; they must use their motorcycle as their primary means of transport; drive at least 25 km per week and present with un- or under-corrected myopia that can be corrected with spectacles. Participants with any ocular or systemic abnormality affecting vision, other than un-or under-corrected myopia will be excluded from the trial. STABLE's primary outcome is CNC events per 1,000 km driven the DAS mounted to the motorcycles of trial participants. An interim analysis of the primary outcome will take place 9 months after data collection begins. The interim analysis will be reviewed by the trial's Data Monitoring and Ethics Committee. Unless a change is needed because of this review, the trial's primary analysis will take place 18 months after the DAS units are fitted to participants' motorcycle). Compliance with study glasses; self-reported visual function (driving-adapted Visual Function Questionnaire-25 \[VFQ-25\]); Dula Dangerous Driving Index (DDDI), for all crashes; self-reported CNC events for comparison with recorded CNC events and total delivery cost per CNC event avoided with the intervention (indicator of cost-effectiveness).
Trial Health
Trial Health Score
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participants targeted
Target at P75+ for not_applicable
Started Sep 2024
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Study Timeline
Key milestones and dates
First Submitted
Initial submission to the registry
July 11, 2022
CompletedFirst Posted
Study publicly available on registry
July 20, 2022
CompletedStudy Start
First participant enrolled
September 22, 2024
CompletedPrimary Completion
Last participant's last visit for primary outcome
June 1, 2026
ExpectedStudy Completion
Last participant's last visit for all outcomes
December 1, 2027
July 17, 2025
July 1, 2025
1.7 years
July 11, 2022
July 14, 2025
Conditions
Keywords
Outcome Measures
Primary Outcomes (1)
Crash and near-crash (CNC) events per 1,000 km driven
CNC events as measured by Global Positioning System (GPS) and a gyroscopic sensor-video data-acquisition system (DAS) mounted to the motorcycles of trial participants.
up to18 months
Secondary Outcomes (4)
Cost-effectiveness
18 months, Collected at the end of the trial.
Self-reported crashes
up to 18 months
Spectacle compliance
up to 18 months
Visual Function
VFQ-25 is administered at baseline and one month after receiving glasses.
Study Arms (2)
Free eye glasses for un or under-corrected myopia
EXPERIMENTALFree eyeglasses for the correction of uncorrected myopia will be provided to participants at the time of enrolment into the intervention group.
Control-No treatment
NO INTERVENTIONParticipants in the control period will not have glasses but the SW-CRT design means that all trial participants with uncorrected myopia will receive free glasses by the trials' completion, and no participant will have glasses withheld after being diagnosed with un- or under-corrected myopia.
Interventions
All participants randomised to the intervention group will be provided with free eye glasses
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if:
- Students from selected universities will be eligible to participate if they:
- are aged 18 to 23 years
- have at least one year or more years of driving experience
- are the sole user of their motorcycle
- use their motorcycle as their primary means of transport
- drive at least 25 km per week (self-report)
- hold a valid driving license if their motorcycle has an engine capacity \>50cc
- Participants will be eligible for assignment to transition into the intervention group if, during the STABLE clinical examination, they are found to have:
- presenting distance visual acuity \<= 6/12 in the better-seeing eye due to un- or under-corrected myopia,
- vision correctable to 6/7.5 or better in both eyes
- at least 0.5 Dioptre of myopia
You may not qualify if:
- Individuals with any ocular or systemic abnormalities affecting vision will be ineligible to participate.
Contact the study team to confirm eligibility.
Sponsors & Collaborators
- Queen's University, Belfastlead
- L.V. Prasad Eye Institutecollaborator
- University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh Citycollaborator
- Asia Injury Prevention Foundationcollaborator
- Clearlycollaborator
- Belfast Health and Social Care Trustcollaborator
- Transport Development and Strategy Institute, Ministry of Transport, Vietnamcollaborator
- EyeCare Foundationcollaborator
Study Sites (1)
University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City
Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Bang Ward 11, 217, Vietnam
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PMID: 39695859DERIVED
MeSH Terms
Conditions
Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)
Study Officials
- PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Tô Gia Kiên, PhD
University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam
Central Study Contacts
Study Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Phase
- not applicable
- Allocation
- RANDOMIZED
- Masking
- SINGLE
- Who Masked
- INVESTIGATOR
- Masking Details
- The trial will be investigator-masked, but not participant-masked, because all participants who are eligible for eye glasses will be given them. The study's outcomes, including Crash and near Crash (CNC) events per 1,000 km, self-reported visual function (Visual Function Questionnaire (VFQ-25), and CI SRQ Crash and Injury Self report Questionnaire for all crashes, Dula Dangerous Driving Index (DDDI) will be masked from assessors. All care will be taken to ensure that the study team are kept masked and the trial team do not foresee conditions that will require emergency unmasking.
- Purpose
- TREATMENT
- Intervention Model
- CROSSOVER
- Sponsor Type
- OTHER
- Responsible Party
- PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
- PI Title
- Professor
Study Record Dates
First Submitted
July 11, 2022
First Posted
July 20, 2022
Study Start
September 22, 2024
Primary Completion (Estimated)
June 1, 2026
Study Completion (Estimated)
December 1, 2027
Last Updated
July 17, 2025
Record last verified: 2025-07
Data Sharing
- IPD Sharing
- Will share
- Shared Documents
- STUDY PROTOCOL, SAP, CSR, ANALYTIC CODE
- Time Frame
- All deidentified IPD will be available from February 2023 (anticipated Trial start date) to December 2025 (inclusive of analysis, publication and archival).
- Access Criteria
- STABLE's research team will not provide any government with direct and unfettered access to trial participant data. Government authorities seeking access to trial data must follow applicable legal processes and supply a warrant, court order for content or a subpoena for trial data.
All Individual Participant Data (IPD) will be stored in anonymised format. The IPD that includes personal identifiable information will be deleted when the data collection process is complete and before the initiation of data analysis. Only de-identified data will be shared with all the researchers for analysis.The primary analysis will be conducted on all outcome data obtained from all enrolled participants as randomised.