The CVI Project

The CVI Project

Welcome to our website where you will find lots of information about the CVI Project and the people working on it.

CVI stands for Cerebral Visual Impairment – find out more here.

 

LATEST NEWS!
CVI Feasibility Study Restart!

We have restarted our Feasibility study with primary schools, and hope to complete follow up data collection in the next few weeks!

Our NEW paper on the prevalence of brain-related vision problems in children is out now! Here is a link to the paper, published in Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology: Prevalence Paper

We are constructing an improved website with fully updated sections to tell you about studies we have completed. This should be available in May 2021.

With many best wishes
The CVI Project team

Prevalence Study

Study Aims This study aimed to find out approximately how many children may be affected by CVI and what is the best way of identifying who might be at

Impact Study

We do not yet know enough about the impact of CVI, for children.

Linkage Study

As well as individual information from children and their parents and teachers, we will be exploring ways of linking to national data records from schools and hospitals,

Feasibility Study

The CVI Project is a 5-year programme of work funded by the government (NIHR) to investigate the prevalence, impact and best way to support children

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Feasibility Study Protocol papers published!

We are very pleased that the protocol papers for our CVI Project Feasibility Study are now published in the BMJ Open. In these papers we set out the rational and methods for testing the feasibility of a school based intervention for children with CVI. Link to the Trial protocol: https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/11/5/e044830.full Link to the Process Evaluation […]

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New Paper!

We are pleased to share our new paper, investigating the views of primary school staff about receiving and using external specialist advice. We hope the insights from our study will support people working in primary schools with children who have a visual impairment. The interviews in our study revealed four major themes: understanding the condition […]

Supported By

This project is funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) (Senior Research Fellowship). The views expressed are those of the author and not necessarily those of the NIHR or the Department of Health and Social Care.

Contact Us

Email: cvi-project@bristol.ac.uk
Tel: 0117 42 83152
Twitter: @thecviproject
University of Bristol Research