Rehabilitating Vision Loss in Veterans With Age-Related Macular Degeneration
Trial statusNot yet recruiting
Trial phaseNot listed
Trial typeObservational
Biological sexAll
Age50+
SponsorVA Office of Research and Development
About this trial
This study will help develop new methods of rehabilitating Veterans with vision loss due to Age-related macular degeneration.
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
The subject is a Veteran.
The subject is 50 years of age.
The subject has best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) of 20/40 or worse in each eye, as determined by the standard CNVAMC optometric tests.
The subject has visual field deficit of 10O in either eye as determined by the Octopus 900 perimetry (Haag-Streit Diagnostics, Haag-Streit USA, Mason, OH) administered by CNVAMC. (When the deficit/s are binocular, they do not necessarily have to be in binocularly corresponding positions.)
Disqualifiers
According to the patient's VA clinical records, the patient has one or more clinically diagnosed neurological disorder.
According to the patient's VA clinical records, the patient has one or more clinically diagnosed cognitive deficits.
According to the patient's VA clinical records, the patient has been clinically diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder that would make it unduly uncomfortable or otherwise clinically inadvisable for the subject to participate in the study.
According to the patient's VA clinical records, according to the patient, or both, the patient has motor disorder/s that would make it unduly uncomfortable or otherwise clinically inadvisable for the subject to participate in the study.
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- Study-specific rehabilitation (SSR) procedures
Treatment groups
20 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groupsSponsors and collaborators
VA Office of Research and Development
Lead sponsor
Augusta University
Collaborator
Source ClinicalTrials.gov