Vision-related quality of life impairment in an elderly UK population: Associations with age, sex, social class and material deprivation

Frost, Andrew; Eachus, Jenny; Sparrow, J M; Peters, Tim; Hopper, C; Davey-Smith, George; Frankel, Stephen

doi:10.1038/eye.2001.241

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“…The VCM1 has been used in several studies [23][24][25], but underwent only minor revision following the CFA. The one item was deleted because it was conceptually different from the other items.…”

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Changes to the subscales of two vision-related quality of life questionnaires are proposed

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Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

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Changes to the subscales of two vision-related quality of life questionnaires are proposed

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Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

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“…Indeed, vision-related quality of life is the issue of greatest importance to many cataract patients, and many lines of evidence suggest that cataract not only destroy visual function but also affect activities of daily life in many ways. [3][4][5][6][7] It is possible that cataract surgery-induced improvements should be translated by considerable gains in patients' daily life performances and social life components.…”

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Impact of cataract surgery on vision-related life performances: the usefulness of Real-Life Vision Test for cataract surgery outcomes evaluation

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et al. 2015

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Purpose Real-Life Vision Test (RLVT) is a newly developed performance-based measures of functional vision. This present study is designed to determine whether it could be a meaningful assessment for cataract surgery outcomes evaluation. Patients and methods Age-related cataract patients (56) who scheduled for bilateral cataract surgery and 44 age-matched controls were evaluated by four types of measurements: (1) demographic, medical, cognitive and depressive evaluation, and the reaction time testing; (2) clinical measures (visual acuity, contrast sensitivity, stereopsis, and color perception); (3) the 25-item National Eye Institute's Visual Functioning Questionnaire (NEI-VFQ); (4) the RLVT. Spearman's coefficients and multiple regression analysis were conducted to investigate the relationship among RLVT, clinical measures, and self-report assessment of visual function. Results The results of RLVT, clinical measures, and NEI-VFQ total scores were improved significantly after cataract surgery. There were no differences between control subjects and post-surgery patients with respect to NEI-VFQ-25 total scores, self-rating depression scale scores and three tasks of RLVT. Change of RLVT was significantly associated with the change of clinical measures in the cataract group. Multiple regression analysis demonstrated that change of distance, intermediate, and near visual acuity, and binocular contrast sensitivity were significant predictors of improvements of RLVT.Conclusions Cataract surgery could improve real-world visual ability effectively for cataract patients. Our study highlights the potential usefulness of RLVT as an adjunct to the current outcomes evaluation system for cataract surgery. The use of RLVT combined with clinical and self-survey methods may be the comprehensive strategy to manifest the impact of cataract surgery on patients' overall vision-related quality of life.

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“…Such inability usually causes numerous deleterious outcomes, such as physical disability, 1 psychosocial distress, 2,3 and low quality of life. [4][5][6][7][8][9] Therefore, it is important to understand how visual impairments influence our daily life.…”

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Using the real-life vision test to assess the functional vision of age-related cataract patients

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Purpose (1) To describe and validate a newly developed, timed performance-based measures of functional vision-the real-life vision test (RLVT). (2) To determine how RLVT relates to clinical measures and selfreport assessment of visual function and the complex interactions among visual impairment, psychosocial status, and demographic factors. Methods A total of 64 patients with age-related cataract and 45 age-matched controls were evaluated by four types of measurements: (1) demographic, medical, cognitive, and depressive evaluation and the reaction time (RT) testing; (2) clinical measures (visual acuity, contrast sensitivity, stereopsis, and the color perception); (3) the 25-item National Eye Institute's Visual Functioning Questionnaire; and (4) the RLVT. Spearman's coefficients, partial correlation, and multiple regression analysis were conducted to determine the relationship among RLVT, clinical measures, and selfreport assessment of visual function while controlling for confounders. Results Control subjects performed RLVT significantly better than the cataract patients. RLVT correlated well with both clinical and self-report assessments of visual function. All subscales of RLVT remained highly associated with most of the clinical measures, even after adjusting for age, years of education, depression, cognitive status, and the RT. Distance, intermediate and near visual acuity, and binocular contrast sensitivity were significant predictors of the RLVT performances. Conclusions Given the strong relationship among RLVT, clinical measures, and the self-report assessments, our results highlight the potential usefulness of RLVT for assessing the functional vision of cataract patients. RLVT may provide information not obtainable from clinical measures or surveys and therefore it is essential to be incorporated into future ophthalmological practice.

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Vision-related quality of life impairment in an elderly UK population: Associations with age, sex, social class and material deprivation

Cited by 39 publications

References 19 publications

Changes to the subscales of two vision-related quality of life questionnaires are proposed

Changes to the subscales of two vision-related quality of life questionnaires are proposed

Impact of cataract surgery on vision-related life performances: the usefulness of Real-Life Vision Test for cataract surgery outcomes evaluation

Using the real-life vision test to assess the functional vision of age-related cataract patients

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