Diet Habit, Dry Eye, Physical Inactivity
Conditions
Brief summary
in the recent times, dry eye was found to be correlated sedentary life style, obesity, hypertension. So, changing the sedentary lifestyle is recommended
Detailed description
older patient who will complain from dry eye will be collected. it is planned to recruit 60 elderly (with obesity and hypertension) to be distributed into group 1 (this group will receive 3-time interval exercise per the week, applied for 30 min with high intensity, plus Mediterranean Diet) and group 2 (this group will receive only 3-time interval exercise per the week, applied for 30 min with high intensity). Every group will contain 30 elderly
Interventions
BEHAVIORALlifestyle change
30 older patient who will complain from dry eye will receive 3-time interval exercise per the week, applied for 30 min with high intensity, plus Mediterranean Diet for 6 months
OTHERexercise
30 older patient who will complain from dry eye will receive 3-time interval exercise per the week, applied for 30 min with high intensity, for 6 months
Sponsors
Cairo University
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE (Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
65 Years to 75 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* elderly patients with dry eye complaints * the patients will be obese and hypertensives
Exclusion criteria
* heart or respiration problems * other diagnosed eye or systemic diseases
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Schirmer's test | 6 months | tear-production speed test |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Ocular surface disability index | 6 months | it is a questionnaire will assess complaints of patients due to severity of dry-eye |
| tear film break up time testing | 6 months | it is a test that will assess tear film stabilization |
| Oxford grading system | 6 months | a test will examine ocular epithelial damage |
| blood systole | 6 months | it will be measured by sphygmomanometer |
| scoring system for dry eye | 6 months | it is a questionnaire will assess dry-eye severity |
| weight | 6 months | it will be expressed in kilograms |
| body mass index | 6 months | it will be gained by dividing weight of subject on his or her squared height |
| waist circumference | 6 months | it will be evaluated by tape measurements of treatment |
| blood diastole | 6 months | it will be measured by sphygmomanometer |
Countries
Egypt
Contacts
Primary ContactAli Ismail, lecturer
Backup ContactAlshymaa Abdel Azeim, Lecturer
Outcome results
None listed