Associations among visual acuity and vision- and health-related quality of life among patients in the multicenter uveitis steroid treatment trial.

Authors

• Kevin D Frick
• Lea T Drye
• John H Kempen
• James P Dunn
• Gary N Holland
• Paul Latkany
• Narsing A Rao
• H Nida Sen
• Elizabeth A Sugar
• Jennifer E Thorne
• Robert C Wang
• Janet T Holbrook

Publication/Presentation Date

3-1-2012

Abstract

PURPOSE: To evaluate the associations between visual acuity and self-reported visual function; visual acuity and health-related quality of life (QoL) metrics; a summary measure of self-reported visual function and health-related QoL; and individual domains of self-reported visual function and health-related QoL in patients with uveitis.

METHODS: Best-corrected visual acuity, vision-related functioning as assessed by the NEI VFQ-25, and health-related QoL as assessed by the SF-36 and EuroQoL EQ-5D questionnaires were obtained at enrollment in a clinical trial of uveitis treatments. Multivariate regression and Spearman correlations were used to evaluate associations between visual acuity, vision-related function, and health-related QoL.

RESULTS: Among the 255 patients, median visual acuity in the better-seeing eyes was 20/25, the vision-related function score indicated impairment (median, 60), and health-related QoL scores were within the normal population range. Better visual acuity was predictive of higher visual function scores (P ≤ 0.001), a higher SF-36 physical component score, and a higher EQ-5D health utility score (P < 0.001). The vision-specific function score was predictive of all general health-related QoL (P < 0.001). The correlations between visual function score and general quality of life measures were moderate (ρ = 0.29-0.52).

CONCLUSIONS: The vision-related function score correlated positively with visual acuity and moderately positively with general QoL measures. Cost-utility analyses relying on changes in generic healthy utility measures will be more likely to detect changes when there are clinically meaningful changes in vision-related function, rather than when there are only changes in visual acuity. (ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT00132691.).

Volume

53

Issue

3

First Page

1169

Last Page

1176

ISSN

1552-5783

Published In/Presented At

Frick, K. D., Drye, L. T., Kempen, J. H., Dunn, J. P., Holland, G. N., Latkany, P., Rao, N. A., Sen, H. N., Sugar, E. A., Thorne, J. E., Wang, R. C., Holbrook, J. T., & Multicenter Uveitis Steroid Treatment-MUST Trial Research Group (2012). Associations among visual acuity and vision- and health-related quality of life among patients in the multicenter uveitis steroid treatment trial. Investigative ophthalmology & visual science, 53(3), 1169–1176. https://doi.org/10.1167/iovs.11-8259

Disciplines

Business Administration, Management, and Operations | Health and Medical Administration | Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods

PubMedID

22247489

Department(s)

Administration and Leadership

Document Type

Article