Low Vision Intervention Trial II (LOVIT II)
Completed · Phase 2
Conditions studied: Central Vision Loss From Macular Diseases
In brief
This study will determine if the interdisciplinary team low vision rehabilitation program is more effective than basic low vision care provided by an optometrist working alone in improving visual reading ability in veterans with macular diseases and best corrected visual acuity of 20/50 to 20/200.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT00958360
- Run by
- VA Office of Research and Development
- People needed
- 323
- Starts
- 2010-08-01
- Expected to finish
- 2015-09-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2016-08-25
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Primary eye diagnosis (better seeing Eye) macular disease
- Best-corrected visual acuity (better seeing eye) 20/50-20/200
You may not qualify if…
- Does not have a telephone
- Does not speak English
- Has received interdisciplinary low vision services
- English literacy less that 5th grade reading level
- Failed TICS
- Unable or unwilling to attend required clinic visits
- Severe hearing impairment preventing administration of telephone questionnaires
- Planned cataract extraction in next 4 months
- Visual fields contracted to diameter of 20 degrees in better-seeing eye
- Vitreous hemorrhage or serous hemorrhagic detachment of macula
- CNVM treated with fewer than 3 anti-VEGF injections
- Diabetic macular edema (DME) treated with focal/grid laser within the last two months
- DME treated with intravitreal injections of anti-VEGF or intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide (IVTA) within the last two months
- Cystoid macular edema (CME) treated with topical (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) NSAIDS, topical steroids or IVTA within the last three months
Where it is running
- Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital, Hines, IL — Hines, Illinois, United States
- Baltimore VA Medical Center VA Maryland Health Care System, Baltimore, MD — Baltimore, Maryland, United States
- Cincinnati VA Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH — Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
- Dayton VA Medical Center, Dayton, OH — Dayton, Ohio, United States
- Philadelphia VA Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital, Madison, WI — Madison, Wisconsin, United States
- Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI — Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov
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