Reading Performance With a Video Magnifier

Completed

Conditions studied: Macular Degeneration

In brief

The most common goal for patients with vision loss who present for vision rehabilitation is to be able to read. The video magnifier (a device which combines a video camera and a screen to view the print being magnified) is the device which most often allows low-vision individuals to read successfully for extended periods of time. Previous studies on the outcomes of vision rehabilitation have not identified which components of the vision rehabilitation are effective. The hypothesis of this project is that providing a video camera magnifier, with basic training in operating the device, will allow patients to enhance both objective reading ability and subjective report of reading competence.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01670643

Run by

Mary Lou Jackson

People needed

120

Starts

2010-01-01

Expected to finish

2011-02-01

Last updated by the study team

2017-03-27

Who can join

Age: 40 and older, up to 90. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Central field loss and decreased visual acuity in the better seeing eye (<20/40 \& >20/400).
• New patient at MEEI Low Vision Rehabilitation Clinic

You may not qualify if…

• Dementia (Mini-Mental State Examination)
• Clinical depression (Geriatric Depression Scale)
• Patients who previously received vision rehabilitation
• Patients who have previously owned a desktop video magnifier

Where it is running

• Vision Rehabilitation Clinic Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary — Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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