Increased Prevalence of Myopia in a Ophthalmologic Hospital in Goiânia - Goiás

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT02647411

Enrollment

16971

Registered

2016-01-06

Start date

2015-08-31

Completion date

2015-11-30

Last updated

2016-01-06

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Conditions

Myopia

Keywords

Prevalence, Myopia

Brief summary

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the increased prevalence of myopia among patients in different periods in an ophthalmologic hospital in Goiania. There has been an increase of myopia prevalence around the world especially in some Asian countries. The investigators intend to analyze if this growing tendency is also present in our hospital, and if it exist how much is this growth.

Detailed description

There were compared data collected in two scientific studies carried out in the same ophthalmologic hospital in different periods of time, they evaluated among other factors, the refractive errors of the participants, from this data there were compared the percentage of patients with myopia between the two studies. And analysed how much was the grown of myopia

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Time perspective

RETROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

2 Years to 40 Years

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* Patients between 2 and 20 years assessment of Project Olhar Brasil * Patients between 2 and 40 years assessment of Project Boa visão

Exclusion criteria

* The patients wasn't assessment of Project Olhar Brasil * The patients wasn't assessment of Project Boa Visão

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Analisys of the percentage of patients with myopia in an ophthalmologic hospital in Goiânia - Goiás based on two prevalence studies made in the same hospital in different periods of time.	up to 2 months	Comparison of the prevalence of myopia from data collected in two scientific studies carried out in the same ophthalmologic hospital in different periods of time, that evaluated among other factors the refractive errors of the participants. In the first study were examined 16.806 students from municipal schools of Goiania during the period October 1995 to December 2000. In the second study there were selected 165 children from 2 to 14 years old who were referred to the Institute of Goiânia eyes, by the Projeto Boa Visão within the school environment. The Projeto Boa Visão aims to identify vision problems related to refraction.

Outcome results