Accommodation Disorders

Completed

Conditions studied: Accommodative Insufficiency, Ill-sustained Accommodation

In brief

This project will develop clinically useful, objective measurements of accommodative insufficiency and fatigue using continuous autorefraction recordings. The development of these procedures will help vision care professionals diagnose and treat accommodative anomalies.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01329848

Run by

Western University of Health Sciences

People needed

83

Starts

2010-12-01

Expected to finish

2013-08-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-01-05

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 30. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• older adolescent and young adult
• skilled readers who attend school
• are skilled readers
• have heavy reading demands

You may not qualify if…

• Age > 30.
• Abnormal vergence system.
• Dry-eye.
• Uncorrected visual defects or significant ocular pathology.
• Learning disability or low IQ
• Medical conditions that might cause uncomfortable visual symptoms (e.g., migraine headaches, epilepsy, head trauma); sensory defects (e.g., deafness), or neurological conditions (e.g., stuttering) that could impair reading development or oral reading fluency.
• Somatosensory amplification.
• Systemic illness or medication associated with accommodative dysfunction.

Where it is running

• Western University of Health Sciences — Pomona, California, United States

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