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To assess whether Chinese ocular exercise is effective in altering distant and near visual acuity, ocular accommodation and visual symptoms in myopic teenager, and thus might have the possibility of slowing myopia progression in teenager through a weak but long-term effect.
Myopia is a public health problem worldwide, especially in some Asian countries like China, Singapore, and Japan. Chinese ocular exercise, originating in 1963 with the theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine, is a kind of massage on acupuncture points around the eye to prevent myopia and alleviate visual fatigue. The exercise has been spread as a community ritual and living habit of primary and high school students for nearly half a century. However, the prevalence of myopia in Chinese children increased remarkably in recent years. Therefore, the efficacy of Chinese ocular exercise on preventing myopia or alleviating visual fatigue is widely questioned. Evidence from clinical trials of high level is needed to clarify that whether Chinese ocular exercise is effective in slowing and preventing myopia progression, or at least in part in easing the symptoms related to myopia and visual fatigue.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Standardized Chinese ocular exercise | Experimental | The participants are trained with standardized Chinese ocular exercise which contains accurate positions of acupuncture points and appropriate pressure on the points. |
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| Nonstandardized ocular exercise | Sham Comparator | The participants are trained with nonstandardized ocular exercise performed on wrong positions where no acupuncture points at all. |
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| Eye closure | No Intervention | The participants are told to close eyes and don't do ocular exercise at all. |
| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Chinese ocular exercise | Other | A kind of massage around the acupuncture points around the eye. |
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| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Distant and near visual acuity | Before and after the intervention immediately, about 5 minutes |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Ocular accommodation | Before and after the intervention immediately, about 5 minutes |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Self evaluation of the improvement after the intervention | Before and after the intervention immediately, about 5 minutes |
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| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Ningli Wang, MD, PhD | Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Shi-Ming Li | Anyang | Henan | 455000 | China |
| PubMed Identifier | Type | Citation | Retractions |
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| 25742161 | Derived | Li SM, Kang MT, Peng XX, Li SY, Wang Y, Li L, Yu J, Qiu LX, Sun YY, Liu LR, Li H, Sun X, Millodot M, Wang N. Efficacy of Chinese eye exercises on reducing accommodative lag in school-aged children: a randomized controlled trial. PLoS One. 2015 Mar 5;10(3):e0117552. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0117552. eCollection 2015. |
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| ID | Term |
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| D009216 | Myopia |
| ID | Term |
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| D012030 | Refractive Errors |
| D005128 | Eye Diseases |
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