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 test the validity of the Impact of Visual Impairment (IVI) questionnaire in a cataract population. SETTING Flinders Eye Centre, Flinders Medical Centre, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia. METHODS Cataract patients recruited from a hospital waiting list completed the IVI questionnaire. The scale was assessed for fit to the Rasch model. Unidimensionality, item and pers...

BACKGROUND The purpose of the present study was to assess the vision-related quality of life (QOL) of visually impaired patients using the Japanese 11-item National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire (VFQ-J11). Comparisons with the 25-item version (VFQ-25) and the EuroQoL Index using a large group of patients with various degrees of impairments and various causative diseases were perfo...

Objective: To evaluate vision-related quality of life (QoL) using National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire-25 (NEI-VFQ-25) in neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) patients during coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Material and Methods: nAMD whose intravitreal injection had to be postponed due restrictions COVID-19 lockdown between April June 2020, NEI-VFQ-2...

Originally received: April 11, 2016. Final revision: April 27, 2016. Accepted: April 27, 2016. Available online: June 1, 2016. Manuscript no. 2016-739. 1 Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Republic of Singapore. 2 Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore, Republic of Singapore. 3 Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Republic of Singapore...

Background: Dry eye disease is a multifactorial disease whose pathogenic mechanisms have not been investigated rigorously. The objective of this study was to evaluate the utility of Prosthetic Replacement of the Ocular Surface Ecosystem (PROSE) treatment in the management of patients with intrinsic evaporative dry eye refractory to conventional therapies. Design: A retrospective clinical cohort...

Department of Ophthalmology, National University Hospital, Singapore Glaucoma Service, Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, UK Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore Glaucoma Research Unit, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada Montreal Glaucoma Institute, Montreal, Canada National Institute for Health Research, Biomedical Research Centre for Ophthalmology, Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, ...

AIM To assess motor functioning in children aged 4 years 6 months enrolled in the Infant Aphakia Treatment Study, and to determine contributions of visual acuity and stereopsis to measured motor skills. METHOD One hundred and four children (53% female) with unilateral aphakia randomized to intraocular lens or contact lens treatment were evaluated at 4 years 6 months (age range 4y 6mo-4y 11mo)...