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Seeing is learning: providing vision care to rural primary school children in China

Seeing is learning: providing vision care to rural primary school children in China: a cluster randomized trial

Status
Active, not recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
ISRCTN
Registry ID
ISRCTN03252665
Enrollment
20000
Registered
2012-09-25
Start date
2012-09-20
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2025-09-08

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Vision care Eye Diseases Myopia

Interventions

Free Glasses (80 schools) Voucher for Free Glasses (can be transferred at the nearest eyeglass shop in the county seat
80 schools) Control (80 schools) Education intervention (crosscutting
120 schools) Pure control (no education, no glasses
40 schools)

Sponsors

Stanford University (USA)
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Fourth and fifth grade students in 250 randomly selected primary schools in Yulin Prefecture, Shaanxi Province and Tianshui Prefecture, Gansu Province.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Students with ailments or conditions that prevents them from being safely dilated and given a proper corrective vision prescription (existing literature indicates this would be at most one percent of the sample population)

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
Messured in both a baseline and follow-up survey: 1. Number of children wearing glasses 2. School performance, determined from a standardized test we will administer and students? grades

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
Knowledge of vision care and mental health, such as anxiety, mental health, self-esteem, and enjoyment of school.

Countries

China, United States of America

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ISRCTN (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Mar 7, 2026