OBJECTIVE To investigate whether understanding of glaucoma is associated with psychological disturbance and vision-related quality of life (QoL) in patients with glaucoma. DESIGN A prospective, hospital-based, cross-sectional study. SETTING Shanghai, China. PARTICIPANTS Five hundred patients with glaucoma were included in the study. Participants were asked to complete the glaucoma compreh...

PURPOSE To describe psychometric properties of a self-report questionnaire, the Veterans Affairs (VA) Low-Vision Visual Functioning Questionnaire (LV VFQ-48), which was designed to measure the difficulty visually impaired persons have performing daily activities and to evaluate low-vision outcomes. METHODS The VA LV VFQ-48 was administered by telephone interview to subjects with visual acuity...

BACKGROUND To evaluate vision-related and health-related quality of life (VRQoL, HRQoL) in first stroke patients with homonymous visual field defects (VFD) with respect to the extent of the lesion. Since VFD occur in approximately 10% of stroke patients the main purpose of the study was to investigate the additional impact of VFD in stroke patients hypothesizing that VFD causes diminished VRQoL...

BACKGROUND This study compared post-operative quality of life and sleep according to the type of cataract opacity and color of the implanted intra-ocular lens (IOL). METHODS This is a cohort study and participants were 206 patients (average age 74.1 years) undergoing cataract surgery with the implantation of a clear ultra-violet (UV)-blocking IOL (C) or a yellow blue-light-blocking IOL (Y). P...

We investigated the vision-related quality of life (VR-QOL) in patients with HLA-B27 associated anterior uveitis (AU). The study was conducted in 2012 at the ophthalmology department of the University Medical Center of Groningen. We included AU patients who were HLA-B27 positive and/or were diagnosed by a rheumatologist with an HLA-B27 associated systemic disease. Sixty-one of 123 (50%) adult p...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to explore and describe quantitatively patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs), ie, health-related quality of life (QoL), visual function and treatment satisfaction, in patients with diabetic macular edema (DME) receiving two different regimens of Ozurdex (intravitreal dexamethasone implant). METHODS In this multicenter, prospective study, 100 patients with...

Purpose To assess the effect of ocriplasmin on visual function response (VFR) measured using visual acuity (VA) and vision-related quality of life, and to quantify the association between release of vitreomacular adhesion (VMA) at day 28 and VFR. Methods Prespecified analysis of secondary endpoints from a randomized controlled trial. Of 220 participants with symptomatic VMA/vitreomacular trac...

Background and Objective: Vision impairment caused by cataracts impacts patients’ daily activities, affecting their quality of life. This study aims to assess life after cataract surgery using the National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire-25 (NEI VFQ-25). Method: Participants were patients who had undergone at Yaounde Gyneco-Obstetrics Pediatrics Hospital (HGOPY) Essos Medico-Surgica...

Abstract Background To evaluate the correlation between visual acuity improvement and vision-related QOL after ranibizumab treatment in Japanese patients with AMD. Methods In this one-year prospective, interventional, open-label, multicenter study involving four sites, neovascular AMD were enrolled observed for 12 months. Treatment-naïve received 0.5 mg as needed three initial monthly doses. Th...