Slashing Two-wheeled Accidents by Leveraging Eyecare: a Stepped-wedge Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial to Assess Impact of Spectacles on Reducing Crash and Near-crash Events Among Myopic Motorcycle Drivers in Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam

Status: Recruiting
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Intervention Type: Device
Study Type: Interventional
Study Phase: Not Applicable
SUMMARY

STABLE is a stepped-wedge cluster randomised controlled trial and its primary aim is to determine whether the provision of spectacles for the correction of myopia can reduce the average number of crash-near-crash (CNC) events among eligible motorcycle drivers in Vietnam as measured under naturalistic driving conditions with the Data Acquisition System (DAS). STABLE is designed to assess the impact of vision correction on the safety of road users in a a Low and Middle income countries (LMIC) setting. A positive trial outcome would demonstrate the safety benefits of vision correction and would create pressure for tighter regulation of drivers' vision and the promotion of vision correction. The study will be conducted in the peri-urban universities in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and 625 students from five universities will be recruited into the trial. Before conducting the main trial, a pilot of 35 students will be recruited to test DAS and build CNC dictionary. Duration of the trial is 33 months from enrolment to completion of primary analysis, with 18 months for data collection. Study participants can be both male and female motorcycle drivers aged 18 to 23 years years with at least one year of driving experience; they must use their motorcycle as their primary means of transport; drive at least 25 km per week and present with un- or under-corrected myopia that can be corrected with spectacles. Participants with any ocular or systemic abnormality affecting vision, other than un-or under-corrected myopia will be excluded from the trial. STABLE's primary outcome is CNC events per 1,000 km driven the DAS mounted to the motorcycles of trial participants. An interim analysis of the primary outcome will take place 9 months after data collection begins. The interim analysis will be reviewed by the trial's Data Monitoring and Ethics Committee. Unless a change is needed because of this review, the trial's primary analysis will take place 18 months after the DAS units are fitted to participants' motorcycle). Compliance with study glasses; self-reported visual function (driving-adapted Visual Function Questionnaire-25 \[VFQ-25\]); Dula Dangerous Driving Index (DDDI), for all crashes; self-reported CNC events for comparison with recorded CNC events and total delivery cost per CNC event avoided with the intervention (indicator of cost-effectiveness).

Eligibility
Participation Requirements
Sex: All
Minimum Age: 18
Maximum Age: 23
Healthy Volunteers: f
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⁃ Students from selected universities will be eligible to participate if they:

• are aged 18 to 23 years

• have at least one year or more years of driving experience

• are the sole user of their motorcycle

• use their motorcycle as their primary means of transport

• drive at least 25 km per week (self-report)

• hold a valid driving license if their motorcycle has an engine capacity \>50cc

⁃ Participants will be eligible for assignment to transition into the intervention group if, during the STABLE clinical examination, they are found to have:

• presenting distance visual acuity \<= 6/12 in the better-seeing eye due to un- or under-corrected myopia,

• vision correctable to 6/7.5 or better in both eyes

• at least 0.5 Dioptre of myopia

Locations
Other Locations
Viet Nam
University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City
RECRUITING
Ho Chi Minh City
Contact Information
Primary
Nathan G Congdon, MD, MPH
n.congdon@qub.ac.uk
+44(0)289097
Backup
Rohit C Khanna, MPH
rohit@lvpei.org
91403522
Time Frame
Start Date: 2024-09-22
Estimated Completion Date: 2027-12
Participants
Target number of participants: 625
Treatments
Experimental: Free eye glasses for un or under-corrected myopia
Free eyeglasses for the correction of uncorrected myopia will be provided to participants at the time of enrolment into the intervention group.
No_intervention: Control-No treatment
Participants in the control period will not have glasses but the SW-CRT design means that all trial participants with uncorrected myopia will receive free glasses by the trials' completion, and no participant will have glasses withheld after being diagnosed with un- or under-corrected myopia.
Related Therapeutic Areas
Sponsors
Collaborators: L.V. Prasad Eye Institute, Clearly, Transport Development and Strategy Institute, Ministry of Transport, Vietnam, Asia Injury Prevention Foundation, EyeCare Foundation, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City
Leads: Queen's University, Belfast

This content was sourced from clinicaltrials.gov