🌐 EnglishEN

AI Cure is a research tool showing open data. Not medical advice. Discuss with your doctor. Terms

← Trials
🧪

Effectiveness of a Multi-disciplinary Vision Rehabilitation Programme in Improving the Overall Quality of Life of Visually Impaired Adults

RecruitingNAAges 18 Years - 80 YearsAllThe Hong Kong Polytechnic University
NCT07827040 on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
💬

In plain words

What the trial is, and whether it could suit you

This trial compares multidisciplinary vision rehabilitation and vision rehabilitation services to determine which service works better at improving overall quality of life for adults with visual impairment. Before receiving the intervention, participants will complete baseline measurements, including an eye examination, cognitive and hearing screenings, mobility and balance assessments, questionnaires on basic demographics and health, and a home environment assessment. This randomised controlled trial includes three arms: 1) control-waitlist (wait for 3 months before joining either intervention arm), 2) vision rehabilitation with low vision training only, and 3) multidisciplinary vision rehabilitation arm. The intervention period lasts for eight weeks, comprising of four on-site training sessions. * During the intervention period, all participants will receive low-vision training on th

Sign in to get the eligibility rules as simple questions to take to your doctor.

Sign in
📋 Eligibility rules (as published)
Inclusion Criteria: * Aged 18 and 80 years * Community-dwelling in Hong Kong * Cantonese Speaker * Clinical diagnosis of low vision (best-corrected visual acuity \<6/18; and/or field loss of \< 20 degree) * Stable ocular condition for ≥ 3 months * Owns a smartphone * Not currently participating in any vision rehabilitation programme * Willing to participate and commit for at least 6 months to 12 months * Provides informed consent Exclusion Criteria: * Living in a nursing home/ institutionalized * Self-reported severe cognitive impairment or HK-MoCA-VI cut off score of 12 * Self-reported severe hearing impairment * Uncontrolled systemic ocular diseases/ neurological or psychiatric conditions * Immobility caused by physical impairment * Refuse to provide written informed consent * Participating in another vision rehabilitation programme during the trial period
💊

What it tests

  • Multidisciplinary vision rehabilitaion
  • Vision rehabilitation incorporating low vision training only
📍

Where

1 site
School of Optometry, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Kowloon, Hong Kong
🤝 Taking part is your choice, and you can leave at any time. Only the trial team can confirm you are eligible — always decide together with your own doctor.
🛡️

AI Cure shows public evidence (Open Targets, ClinicalTrials.gov, PubMed, openFDA, DepMap, AlphaFold) with its source, and AI summaries that cite it — not medical advice and not a cure. Treatment decisions belong with your doctor. Research ideas are shared only with approved researchers and labs, who can test them. In an emergency call your local emergency number (112 in India and Europe, 911 in the US). AI Cure Terms of Use · Privacy