Psychiatric manifestations and personality traits associated with compliance with glaucoma treatment

Does psychological distress vary between younger and older adults in health and disease?

“…Glaucoma patients demonstrated typical glaucomatous visual field loss and glaucomatous optic nerve cupping with open, normal appearing angles, while patients with other types of glaucoma were excluded from the study [30]. Primary diagnoses of rheumatologic diseases were confirmed based on the respective recommended criteria [31][32][33][34] and diagnosis of IBD was confirmed based on clinical, radiological, endoscopic and histological evaluation.…”

Somatization is associated with physical health-related quality of life independent of anxiety and depression in cancer, glaucoma and rheumatological disorders

“…Diagnosis of colorectal cancer was confirmed based on positive biopsy for cancer cells, after colonoscopy [30,31]. Glaucoma patients demonstrated typical glaucomatous visual field loss and glaucomatous optic nerve cupping with open, normal appearing angles, while patients with other types of glaucoma (such as congenital, closed angle, or other secondary glaucomas) were excluded from the study [19]. Diagnoses of rheumatologic diseases were confirmed based on the respective recommended criteria [32][33][34].…”

“…Somatization, however, has been studied rarely, and is usually interpreted as a consequence of depression [15] or the underlying physical illness [16], but it has rarely been studied as a correlate of HRQOL after adjustment for these potential confounders. Similarly, the diagnosis of glaucoma can negatively influence a person's HRQOL despite good vision [17]; symptoms of depression have been related to worse self-reported visual function [18] and poor compliance with treatment [19]. Little attention, however, has been given to the role that anxiety, depression or somatization play in the HRQOL of glaucoma patients [18,20].…”

Drops, Drops, and More Drops

“…(Skalicky and Goldberg, 2008;Tastan et al, 2010) Depression has been shown to be associated with nonadherence. (Friedman et al, 2009;Pappa et al, 2006) Pappa et al demonstrated that 42% of glaucoma patients were nonadherent, omitting at least 2 doses per week. (Pappa et al, 2006) Nonadherence was directly associated with disease duration (P <.05), frequency of dosing, and an increase in disease severity, but not with the type of medication prescribed.…”

“…(Friedman et al, 2009;Pappa et al, 2006) Pappa et al demonstrated that 42% of glaucoma patients were nonadherent, omitting at least 2 doses per week. (Pappa et al, 2006) Nonadherence was directly associated with disease duration (P <.05), frequency of dosing, and an increase in disease severity, but not with the type of medication prescribed. Depression in glaucoma was independently shown to be unrelated to the use of topical beta-blockers.…”