1William V. Chappell, Jr. Veterans Affairs Multispecialty Clinic, Daytona Beach, Florida
2School of Optometry and Vision Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
3William “Bill” Kling Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic, Sunrise, Florida
4Upper Thornhill Eye Clinic, Vaughan, Ontario, Canada
5Professional Eye Care Center, Niles, Illinois
*ruthhyattod@gmail.com
Supplemental Digital Content: Appendix A, available at http://links.lww.com/OPX/A439: Survey administered before subjects were introduced to the Icare HOME device. The pre-survey contains self-reported demographic information, practice patterns, and ocular comfort rating.
Appendix B, available at http://links.lww.com/OPX/A439: Survey administered after subjects used the Icare HOME device. The post-survey contains questions regarding the subject’s experience with using the device, including ocular comfort rating after the experiment and the device’s ease of use.
Appendix C, available at http://links.lww.com/OPX/A440: Pre- and post-survey raw data results for the entire cohort. Discrepancy in total responses for each question due to not every participant answering every survey question.
Submitted: April 23, 2019
Accepted: December 13, 2019
Funding/Support: American Academy of Optometry Fellows Doing Research Special Interest Group and American Academy of Optometry Public Health and Environmental Vision Section.
Conflict of Interest Disclosure: None of the authors have reported a financial conflict of interest. Funding provided by the American Academy of Optometry Fellows Doing Research Special Interest Group, American Academy of Optometry Public Health and Environmental Vision Section. Device and technical support provided by Icare USA. No sponsor or funding source had any role in the study design, conduct, analysis and interpretation, or writing of the report. Each author has access, control, and ownership of the manuscript data. The authors were responsible for manuscript preparation and submission for publication. Each author had full access to data, each author takes full responsibility for content of the manuscript. No funding sources a role in the decision to submit for peer-review.
Study Registration Information: University of Waterloo Office of Research Ethics ORE: 23164/New System: 32008.
Author Contributions and Acknowledgments: Conceptualization: RH, NMF, DE, KJ, JK; Data Curation: NMF, JK; Formal Analysis: NMF, JK; Funding Acquisition: RH; Investigation: RH, NMF, DE, KJ, JK; Methodology: RH, NMF, DE, KJ, TT, JK; Project Administration: RH, NMF, DE, JK; Resources: RH, NMF, DE, JK; Software: JK; Supervision: RH, NMF, JK; Validation: NMF, DE, JK; Visualization: RH, NMF, DE, JK; Writing – Original Draft: RH; Writing – Review & Editing: RH, NMF, DE, KJ, TT, JK.
The authors thank the following volunteer study examiners: Laura Addy, Jessica Beckman, Erika Bendert, Tiana Berezu, Molly Buchanan, Natasha Chang, Theresa Wei Chen, Madeline Coughlin, Haemi Choi, Breck Dakin, Sydni Davis, Yvette Diaz, Cheryl Ervin, Marissa Ferris, Lauren Furicchia, Maddie Gallian, Hannah Gregory, Kristina Haworth, Snow Hu, Asiya Jabeen, Mitchell Jelen, Shanelle Jenkins, Chris Kenrick, Josephine Ko, Alicia Liao, Christian Lopez, Mercedes Luevano, Tychnia Madison, Sarah Mahmoud, Andrew McLeod, Veronica Mirabent, Shreea Mistry, Julianna Mola, Sam Moon, Kylie Moore, Laura Mosley, Chris Obi, Kathryn Owen, Alyssa Panagos, Ankur Patel, Chandni Patel, Ishani Patel, Amy Phan, Lydia Pickrell, Sharlene Raghoonanan, Haley Rambo, Rachel Rowland, Yasmine Sanaei, Shanae Scott, Julia Shao, Maria Sicco, Trenisha Smith, Natasha Taleff, Lisette Torres-Lomeli, Theresa Tran, Crystal Victor, Rachael White, Elton Wong, Timothy Yuan, and Thelzy Zamarron.
Supplemental Digital Content: Direct URL links are provided within the text.
