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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ophthalmology. 2010 Sep 15;117(12):2322–2328.e1. doi: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2010.03.042

Table 1.

Health related quality of life scores in patients with diplopia (n=80) using AS-20 and VFQ-25 pre and post-operatively.

AS-20 questionnaire Diplopic patients (n=80)
Pre-Post op difference SUCCESS (n=46) Pre-Post op difference PARTIAL SUCCESS (n=27) Pre-Post op difference FAILURE (n=7) Success vs Failure Success vs Partial success Partial success vs failure
Median (1st quartile, 3rd quartile) Median (1st quartile, 3rd quartile) Median (1st quartile, 3rd quartile)
AS-20 composite score 21.3 (12.5, 35.0) 17.5 (6.3, 22.5) 8.8 (3.8, 12.5) 0.002 0.05 0.06
Psychosocial subscale 10.0 (2.5, 27.5) 7.5 (2.5, 20.0) 0.0 (−2.5, 17.5) 0.052 0.3 0.2
Function subscale 27.5 (20.0, 47.5) 20.0 (12.5, 35.0) 7.5 (5.0, 17.5) 0.004 0.01 0.04
VFQ-25 questionnaire
VFQ-25 composite score 18.3 (8.6, 26.1) 10.7 (4.0, 18.7) 8.3 (0.8, 13.5) 0.02 0.02 0.7
General health 0.0 (0.0, 0.0) 0.0 (−25.0, 25.0) 0.0 (−25.0, 25.0) 0.8 0.4 0.9
General vision 20.0 (0.0, 40.0) 20.0 (0.0, 20.0) 0.0 (0.0, 20.0) 0.2 0.054 0.8
Ocular pain 12.5 (0.0, 25.0) 0.0 (0.0, 12.5) 0.0 (0.0, 12.5) 0.07 0.06 0.7
Near activities 16.7 (8.3, 41.7) 8.3 (0.0, 25.0) 8.3 (−8.3, 25.0) 0.2 0.1 0.7
Distance activities 16.7 (8.3, 33.3) 8.3 (0.0, 25.0) 0.0 (−8.3, 16.7) 0.03 0.1 0.2
Vision specific social functioning 12.5 (0.0, 25.0) 0.0 (0.0, 25.0) 12.5 (0.0, 12.5) 0.9 0.1 0.5
Vision specific mental health 31.3 (12.5, 50.0) 18.8 (6.3, 37.5) 6.3 (−12.5, 12.5) 0.001 0.05 0.02
Vision specific role difficulties 25.0 (0.0, 50.0) 12.5 (0.0, 25.0) 12.5 (0.0, 25.0) 0.3 0.08 1.0
Vision specific dependency 12.5 (0.0, 25.0) 8.3 (0.0, 25.0) 0.0 (0.0, 8.3) 0.2 0.5 0.3
Driving 16.7 (0.0, 25.0) 8.3 (0.0, 16.7) 4.2 (0.0, 25.0) 0.3 0.1 0.9
Color vision 0.0 (0.0, 0.0) 0.0 (0.0, 0.0) 0.0 (0.0, 25.0) 0.1 0.2 0.04
Peripheral vision 25.0 (0.0, 50.0) 0.0 (0.0, 25.0) 25.0 (0.0, 50.0) 1.0 0.1 0.5

Changes in scores for successes, partial successes and failures represented as medians (quartiles). Differences between successes, partial successes and failures were analyzed using Wilcoxon tests. AS-20 = Adult Strabismus-20; VFQ-25 = National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire-25