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The 7-Day Eye Care Diary Instructions

Start filling out this diary on Sunday morning and continue recording information throughout the next week. The diary will be completed next Saturday night. Write things down when they happen, rather than waiting until the end of the week or even the end of the day. It is very important to write the exact time for each event. If your child is going to be with another caregiver, send the diary with your child so that the eye care information can be written down as it occurs. Information must be recorded on a separate diary sheet every day of the week.

Each page starts at midnight and ends at 11:30pm . Be sure to write in the date at the top of each page on the date line. For each day, the diary is divided into rows representing half hour time periods. There are columns for:

sleeping,

contact lens use,

glasses use and

use of the eye patch

• The column with the sleeping child is for recording when your child is asleep. Write the times when your child goes to sleep and wakes up in the column under the sleeping child.

• The column showing a contact lens being inserted is for you to record the times when your child has the contact lens in or out.

• The column with the glasses is for recording the times when your child has glasses on or off.

• The last column will be for writing the times when your child has the eye patch on or off his/her “good” eye.

In each column draw a line to connect the eye care activities written in each column.

• Connect Sleep ‘S' to wake ‘W' to show sleeping.

• Connect the contact lens “IN' to ‘OUT' to show when the contact was in.

• Connect ‘ON' to ‘OFF' to show when the glasses or the eye patch is on.

At the bottom of each diary page is a Comments section where you can write events about the glasses, eye patch, and/or contact lens. (See Detailed Instructions)

Some eye care events will never apply to your child. There may also be some days when your child will not wear the prescribed eye patch, glasses, and/or contact lens. Check the correct “No Use” box at the top of each eye care column on all 7 days of the diary for any eye care aid that your child never uses. Also check the appropriate “No Use” box on any day your child doesn't use the prescribed eye care aid.

When you have finished filling out the diary at the end of the week, there is a series of seven (7) short questions for you to tell us how you felt about completing the diary. On Saturday night, after you have finished recording the information and answered these questions, remove the strip, fold and seal, and mail the prepaid addressed booklet to the Data Coordinating Center .

If you have any questions about completing the diary, please feel free to call Betsy Bridgman at (404) 727-2480.

IATS Clinical Trial

The 7-Day Eye Care Diary Instructions