Comparison on the vision‐related quality of life between outpatients and general population with dry eye syndrome

• Published in: Acta ophthalmologica (Oxford, England) England), 2014-03, Vol.92 (2), p.e124-e132
• Main Authors: Le, Qihua, Ge, Ling, Li, Meiyan, Wu, Liangcheng, Xu, Jianjiang, Hong, Jiaxu, Gong, Lan
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: 25‐item National Eye Institute Visual Functioning Questionnaire; Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Chronic fatigue syndrome; Cross-Sectional Studies; dry eye syndrome; Dry Eye Syndromes - diagnosis; Dry Eye Syndromes - psychology; Eyes & eyesight; Female; Fluorescein; Fluorescent Dyes; Fluorophotometry; Healthy Volunteers; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Ocular Surface Disease Index Questionnaire; Ophthalmology; Outpatients; Quality of life; Quality of Life - psychology; Sickness Impact Profile; Staining and Labeling - methods; Surveys and Questionnaires; Tears - physiology; Vision, Ocular - physiology; Visual Acuity - physiology; visual quality of life; Young Adult
• ISSN: 1755-375X; 1755-3768
• DOI: 10.1111/aos.12204

. Purpose:  To compare the impact of dry eye syndrome (DES) on vision‐related quality of life (VR‐QoL) between outpatients and general populations. Methods:  This cross‐sectional comparative study enrolled 154 participants, 77 outpatients and 77 general participants, all of whom met the diagnostic criteria of DES. Apart from the collection of sociodemographic and clinical data, the Chinese version of 25‐item National Eye Institute Visual Functioning Questionnaire (NEI VFQ‐25) and Ocular Surface Disease Index Questionnaire (OSDI) were administered. Main outcome measures include the comparison on the OSDI score and VFQ‐25 score between two groups, and their correlation with sociodemographic and clinical data. Results:  The two groups were comparable concerning sociodemographic parameters except that the outpatients were better educated (χ2 = 18.609, p