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Poor compliance equals poor occlusion therapy results, monitoring study finds
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands — The widespread assumption that poor compliance with occlusion therapy for amblyopia results in poor results has been confirmed by objective electronic monitoring.
Sjoukje Loudon and colleagues here at the Erasmus Medical Centre Rotterdam electronically measured compliance in 14 children newly identified with amblyopia. Compliance was measured for 1 week at 6 months after the start of occlusion therapy. It was expressed in percentages of the electronically registered time compared with the prescribed occlusion time.
Measured compliance averaged 80% in eight children who had a satisfactory acuity increase and 34% in the six children with an unsatisfactory acuity increase. Children with low acuity increase had statistically significantly lower compliance.
The study is published in Graefe’s Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology.