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Study: Daily disposables can improve compliance, ease of use, comfort

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Refitting soft contact lens wearers with daily disposable contact lenses improves compliance, ease of use and comfortable wearing time for struggling patients, according to a Vistakon press release.

The release detailed study findings that were presented at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology meeting.

The study included 611 habitual soft contact lens wearers, 381 of whom used reusable silicone hydrogels, 169 of whom used daily disposable hydrogels and 61 of whom used reusable hydrogels, according to the release.

An eight-item Contact Lens Dry Eye Questionnaire (CLDEQ-8) was administered electronically to registry participants at baseline, 2 weeks and 4 months after registration. Higher CLDEQ-8 scores indicated more symptoms with lens wear. Wearers’ responses were analyzed for differences at baseline between lens types and for change over time by habitual lens group, the release said.

Scores improved significantly for all groups at the 2-week survey and remained relatively stable through the 4 months of follow-up.

More than 90% of newly refit daily disposable wearers rated their compliance as “excellent” or “very good” after 4 months of wear, regardless of habitual contact lens type, and 96% of registry participants found 1-Day Acuvue TruEye or 1- Day Acuvue Moist to be “extremely easy” or “very easy” to use, according to the release.

In addition, at baseline, daily disposable lens wearers rated their compliance and ease of use with habitual daily disposable lenses significantly higher than reusable lens wearers. Compliance increased from 62% in reusable lens wearers to 86% in habitual daily disposable wearers (P < .0001). Ease of use ratings of “excellent/very good” increased from 60% to 93% when reusable lenses were replaced with daily disposables (P < .0001), the release said.

“The study demonstrates that daily disposables can offer a more comfortable, compliant and user-friendly wearing experience to patients who have challenges with their soft contact lenses,” principal investigator Robin L. Chalmers, OD, said in the release. “The study results suggest that the 1-Day Acuvue TruEye and 1-Day Acuvue Moist daily disposable lenses may be good choices to help address patients’ problems with their habitual lenses and to help struggling patients have a more comfortable wearing experience.”

The study was sponsored by Vistakon Division of Johnson & Johnson Vision Care Inc.