BACKGROUND The use of self-report questionnaires to substitute for visual acuity measurement has been limited. We examined the association between visual impairment and self reported visual function in a population sample of older people in the UK. METHODS Cross sectional study of people aged more than 75 years who initially participated in a trial of health screening. The association between...

PURPOSE To examine the responsiveness of the National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire-25 (NEI VFQ-25) by using data from the MARINA and ANCHOR trials in neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and to establish the change in the NEI VFQ-25 associated with a 15-letter change in best corrected visual acuity (BCVA). METHODS In MARINA, 716 patients were randomized to monthly...

The National Eye Institute developed a visual functioning questionnaire (NEI-VFQ) designed to assess health-related quality of life of patients with visual impairments. The developers of the NEI-VFQ distributed the original 52 items into 13 different domains. The recommended method for scoring the NEI-VFQ is to linearly transform the sum of the ordinal ratings to each item within each domain to...

Purpose: The aim of this study is to investigate the structure–function characteristics and vision-related quality life (VR-QoL) in uveitic glaucoma (UG) compared with open-angle (OAG). Method: included 69 patients UG 138 primary open angle glaucoma, normal-tension glaucoma. A 25-item National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire (VFQ-25) was used evaluate patients’ VR-QoL. retinal nerve...

METHOD one hundred (n=100) elderly outpatients with diabetic retinopathy taking antihypertensives and/or oral antidiabetics/insulin were interviewed. Adherence was evaluated by the adherence proportion and its association with the care taken in administrating medications and by the Morisky Scale. The National Eye Institute Visual Functioning Questionnaire (NEI VFQ-25) was used to evaluate HRQoL...

PURPOSE In clinical ophthalmology as in other fields, measuring patient-reported outcomes imposes a burden on patients. To decrease that burden, we used item-response theory (IRT) to develop and test a short version of the National Eye Institute's Visual Function Questionnaire (VFQ). METHODS We analyzed VFQ data from 276 adults in Japan. Most of them had glaucoma, cataract, or macular degener...

AIM To evaluate the relationship between vision-related quality of life (VR-QOL) and visual function in patients undergoing vitrectomy, gas tamponade and cataract surgery for macular hole (MH). METHODS The 25-item National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire (VFQ-25) was self-administered by 32 patients with MH (age 66.2 (SD 5.4) years) preoperatively and at 3 months postoperatively. ...

PURPOSE To determine the relationship between the American Medical Association's (AMA) functional vision score (FVS) and vision-specific quality of life in retinitis pigmentosa (RP) patients using the National Eye Institute's Visual Functioning Questionnaire (NEI-VFQ 25). METHODS One hundred eight patients with RP participated in the study. We measured best-corrected visual acuity, conducted ...

BACKGROUND In the present study we evaluated the functional success after macular hole surgery in correlation to visual quality of life and looked for predictive factors determining surgical success. METHODS Fifty-nine patients that underwent pars plana vitrectomy for idiopathic macular hole were included. Follow-up visits were performed in regular intervals after surgery and included a clini...

PURPOSE The purpose of the study was to assess vision-related quality of life (QoL) in patients with visual field loss (VFL) after lesions of the postchiasmatic visual pathway and to investigate the influence of VFL and reduced visual acuity (VA) on vision-related QoL. METHODS In 312 patients with postchiasmatic damage, VFL was measured by automated computer campimetry, and vision-related QoL...