Recruiting

Observational Study

Sponsor:

National Eye Institute (NEI)

Code:

NCT00000169

Conditions

Myopia

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 6 - 14

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Study Details

Brief summary:

To compare and contrast normal eye growth, ocular component development, and refractive error development in Hispanic, African-American, and Asian schoolchildren with what happens in Caucasian children from the Orinda Longitudinal Study of Myopia.

To investigate risk factors for the development of myopia.

To conduct DNA-based studies on nearsighted children and their families.

Conditions

Myopia

Study ID

NCT00000169

Start date

Apr, 1999

Status verified date

Jun, 2001

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 6 - 14

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Children were eligible if they were enrolled in the first through eighth grades in selected schools in Eutaw, Alabama; Houston, Texas; Orinda, California; or Irvine, California in the 1997-98 academic year and in the first grade only in Eutaw, Houston, and Irvine in the 1998-99 academic year.

Study Design

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Lisa A. Jones, Ph.D.

1-614-292-7097jones.809@osu.edu

Locations

West Alabama Health Services, Inc.

Recruiting

Eutaw, Alabama, United States, 35462

Contacts

Sandral Hullett, MD, et al

205-372-3674kleinstein@icare.opt.uab.edu

Southern California College of Optometry

Recruiting

Fullerton, California, United States, 92831

Contacts

Julie A. Yu, OD

714-992-7806jyu@scco.edu

University of Houston, College of Optometry

Recruiting

Houston, Texas, United States, 77204-2020

Contacts

Ruth E. Manny, OD PhD

713-743-1944rmanny@uh.edu

More Information

Sponsor

National Eye Institute (NEI)

Last update posted

Jun 24, 2005

Last verified

Jun, 2001

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-09. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by National Eye Institute (NEI) on 2005-06-24.