Table 1.

Participant characteristics

	Casey Eye Institute	Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
	Portland, OR	Miami, FL
N	22	28
Sex	12 Females, 10 Males	19 Females, 9 Males
Age (years; Mean ± SEM)	35.9 ± 2.1	34.8 ± 1.9
Race	5 Asian, 0 Black, 15 White, 2 Other	2 Asian, 3 Black, 14 White, 9 Other
Ethnicity*	2 Hispanic, 13 Non-Hispanic	10 Hispanic, 17 Non-Hispanic
Soft Contact Lens (CL) use (% of participants)	43%	27%
OSDI Score (Mean ± SEM)	4.7 ± 1.1	3.4 ± 0.9
DEQ5 (Mean ± SEM)	6.1 ± 0.7	4.3 ± 0.9

^*Not answered by all participants