Crossover Evaluation of Eye Drops in Symptomatic Contact Lens Wearers

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  Crossover Evaluation of Two Different Eye Drops in Symptomatic Soft Contact lens wearers

• IRAS ID

  255536

• Contact name

  Nancy Keir

• Contact email

  nkeir@coopervision.com

• Sponsor organisation

  CooperVision Inc

• Duration of Study in the UK

  0 years, 2 months, 8 days

• Research summary

  The purpose of this study is to assess whether end of day comfort improves with the application of comfort-enhancing artificial tear drops in symptomatic contact lens wearers.
  This will be an approximately 20-30 subject, randomised, single masked, dispensing study used to compare treatments. Symptomatic contact lens wearers will wear new (habitual brand) contact lenses for two weeks in conjunction with each of the two treatments (total study time 4 weeks). The order in which the subjects experience the treatments will be random.
  Participants will be existing soft contact lens wearers recruited because they have healthy eyes apart from needing correction for long or short sightedness. Participants will be screened for symptoms related to contact lenses i.e. they will have a comfortable wearing time 2 hours less than their average wearing time or experience symptoms of late day dryness. Only those deemed symptomatic will be dispensed lenses in the study.

• REC name

  North East - Newcastle & North Tyneside 1 Research Ethics Committee

• REC reference

  18/NE/0351

• Date of REC Opinion

  9 Nov 2018

• REC opinion

  Favourable Opinion