NCT04261868

Virtual Reality Game Playing in Amblyopia Therapy

Status unknown NA Last updated 10 February 2020

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Virtual Reality in Amblyopia in 50 participants. Status unknown.

Timeline

11 March 2020

Primary endpoint
11 May 2021

11 June 2021

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Hamideh Sabbaghi
Phase	NA
Status	Status unknown
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	triple
Primary purpose	treatment
Enrollment	50
Start date	11 March 2020
Primary completion	11 May 2021
Estimated completion	11 June 2021

Drugs / interventions tested

• Virtual Reality
• Patching

Conditions studied

• Amblyopia — all drugs for Amblyopia →

Sponsor

Hamideh Sabbaghi

Who can join

Adults 4 to 10, any sex, with Amblyopia. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Background: "Amblyopia is a neurodevelopmental disorder in both monocular and binocular functions and it extends even beyond the primary visual integration centers", therefore, amblyopia is not a "lazy eye" but it is a "lazy brain".

Purpose: The investigators aimed to compare the visual outcome of occlusion therapy with virtual reality game playing as a new therapy on amblyopic children.

Methods: This RCT was performed on 50 children with unilateral amblyopia ,4 to 10 years old. They were randomly divided to case and control (each= 25) groups. case group were trained binocularly using the virtual reality games through head set for one hour a day, 5 days in a week for 4 to 6 weeks. Controls occluded their non- amblyopic eyes, 2, 4 and 6 hours for mild (0.2 to 0.3 LogMAR), moderate (0.3 to 0.6 LogMAR) and severe (BCVA \< 0.6 LogMAR) amblyopia, respectively.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial.