Status:
COMPLETED
Effect of Mobile Communication on Childhood Cataract Follow-up Adherence
Lead Sponsor:
Sun Yat-sen University
Collaborating Sponsors:
Ministry of Health, China
Conditions:
Cataract
Eligibility:
All Genders
Up to 18 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
Rigorous and regular follow-up is essential to successful management of childhood cataract, but it is often ignored by parents and especially difficult to be delivered in China, such an average-medica...
Detailed Description
Congenital and developmental cataract is a priority of Vision 2020: the Right to Sight, the global initiative to reduce the world's burden of avoidable blindness, because it is an important treatable ...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- If the children were identified with congenital or development cataract before or after surgery, without other ocular abnormality
- Parents were able to access a mobile phone on a near-daily basis and communicate via short message service (SMS).
- Have signed a consent form
- Can be followed
Exclusion
- Children not identified with congenital or development cataract
- Parents without ownership of mobile phone
- Have not signed consent form
- Be not able to be followed
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
December 1 2010
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
August 1 2011
Estimated Enrollment :
258 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT01417819
Start Date
December 1 2010
End Date
August 1 2011
Last Update
August 30 2011
Active Locations (1)
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Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-sen U
Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, 510060