Table 1.

 Sociodemographic characteristics of the study population

Variable	Setting		All patients	p Value
	MCMA	REH
Age, mean (SD)	75.4 (6.9)	71.9 (9.3)	73.2 (8.6)	<0.05
Sex, No (%)				0.44
Male	19 (38)	35 (45)	54 (42)
Female	31 (62)	43 (55)	74 (58)
Education, No (%)				0.69
Low	24 (49.0)	31 (40.3)	55 (43.7)
Middle	16 (32.7)	28 (36.4)	44 (34.9)
High	9 (18.3)	18 (23.4)	27 (21.4)
2nd eye surgery*, No (%)	21 (42.0)	32 (41.0)	53 (41.4)	0.91

MCMA, Medical Centre Maastricht Annadal; REH, Rotterdam Eye Hospital.

*If patients had second eye cataract surgery.