Vision related quality of life measured using Virtual Reality.

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  Visual performance measures in a virtual reality environment for assessing clinical trial outcomes in those with severely reduced vision.

• IRAS ID

  211293

• Contact name

  Ruth Hogg

• Contact email

  r.e.hogg@qub.ac.uk

• Duration of Study in the UK

  0 years, 9 months, 31 days

• Research summary

  A patients ability to perform daily tasks that require vision is often a useful indicator of whether a new treatment has worked or not. However it is a difficult thing to measure accurately, it is mostly achieved using questionaires, asking patients about how easy or difficult they find particular tasks, which is not always accurate. New virtual reality headsets provide the possibility of measuring a patients ability to perform such tasks more directly. We propose to develop such
  performance-based measures of visual function in VR and to trial them on patients with low vision (e.g. Stargardt’s disease, retinitis pigmentosa and Albinism) who have severe sight impairment.

• REC name

  HSC REC B

• REC reference

  17/NI/0002

• Date of REC Opinion

  7 Apr 2017

• REC opinion

  Further Information Favourable Opinion