Ocular Adaptation and Visual Performance for Accommodative Contact Lens

Pacific University52 enrolled

Overview

Presbyopes (people who might have a significant loss of their ability to accommodate their crystalline lens in the eye) will be recruited to wear a test lens and perform typical clinical tests of visual acuity with different luminance levels and viewing distances/angles.

In the proposed study we plan to recruit presbyopes (people who might have a significant loss of their ability to accommodate their crystalline lens in the eye) to wear a test lens and perform typical clinical tests of visual acuity with different luminance levels and viewing distances/angles. These are similar to the typical examinations conducted for regular contact lens wearers. Results of this testing will be used to evaluate the efficacy of test lenses and to provide additional information for revision of test lenses. If shown to provide adequate eye comfort and intended vision correction, this lens design has the potential of allowing tens of millions of presbyopes to adapt to contact lenses and significantly improve their vision and well-being.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

Conditions

Functionality of Experimental Contact Lens

Interventions

Accommodative contact lensDEVICE

Different downgaze angles will be experimented to determine whether the accommodative contact lens can alter its optical refraction at downgaze angles.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 40 YearsMax age: 65 YearsHealthy volunteers:

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Inclusion Criteria: * Be between 40 and 65 years of age. * Have normal/corrected-to-normal monocular acuity of better than 20/25 for both eyes. * Have pupil diameter in regular lighting ≥ 2.5 mm. * Willing and able to wear multifocal contact lenses in both eyes. * Have a current optical prescription (obtained less than 2 years ago). * Have spherical equivalent correction equal to or higher than -1.00 Diopter and equal to or less than +0.50 Diopter. * Have cylindrical correction equal to less than 0.50 Diopter. Exclusion Criteria: * Have no prismatic correction. * Without any eye infection, inflammation, disease, or abnormality that contraindicates contact lens wear within the past 6 months. * No clinically significant ocular pathology (e.g., cataract, keratoconus, dry eye, diabetic retinopathy, or age-related macular degeneration) * Have no photosensitive disorders, including migraine and seizure. * Have no binocular dysfunction, including amblyopia, strabismus, and other binocular diseases.

Locations (1)

Vision Performance Institute

Forest Grove, Oregon, United States

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Monocular Refractive Power

Participants will wear the test lens and look at different downsize angles. The refractive power of the lens/eye combination will be measured with an open-field auto refractor.

Time frame: 30 mins of wearing; non-dispensing.

Visual Acuity at 20 Degree Downsize Angles

The resultant visual acuity at near at this down-gaze angle will be measured. This is achieved by having the subjects holding a new acuity chart at 40 cm distance, their heads upright and perpendicular to the ground, and their gazes rotated downward 20 degrees where the chart was located. The subjects then read out the optotypes (letters) on the chart to a size they cannot no only identify the letters. The lines of letters with which all letters can be identified is recorded as the corresponding level of acuity.

Time frame: 30 mins of wearing; non-dispensing.

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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