Evaluation of a New Method for Instilling Eye Drops
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2018-01-07
Target enrollment:
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Summary
The purpose of this project is to demonstrate that there is a new easier method to instill
eye drops in ones own eye that is as effective as applying a drop directly to their open eye.
The benefits of this new method include better medication compliance and reduced patient
anxiety from instilling their eye drops. This secondary benefit should remove the
"approach-avoidance response" that prompts some patients to delay or give-up on instilling
their drops just to avoid the angst and frustration produced by the challenge.
The new method involves the patient instilling the eye drop onto their closed eyelid and then
blinking the eye drop into their eye. We aim to show that this method has a similar
therapeutic effect as the routine administration of an eye drop to an open eye.