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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 2.

Health related quality of life scores in patients without diplopia (n=26) using AS-20 and VFQ-25 pre and post-operatively.

AS-20 questionnaire Non-diplopic patients (n=26)
Pre-Post op difference SUCCESS (n=19) Pre-Post op difference PARTIAL SUCCESS (n=5) Pre-Post op difference FAILURE (n=2) 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 23.8 (10.0, 32.5) 2.5 (2.5, 22.0) −3.1 (−10, 3.8) 0.05 0.3 0.6
Psychosocial subscale 27.5 (15.0, 47.5) 5.0 (2.5, 14.7) 2.5 (−2.5, 7.5) 0.07 0.1 0.8
Function subscale 7.5 (2.5, 25.0) 10.0 (0.0, 12.5) −8.8 (−27.5, 10.0) 0.3 0.6 0.4
VFQ-25 questionnaire
VFQ-25 composite score 5.0 (0.0, 10.1) 1.8 (0.9, 2.9) −15.4 (−19.4, −11.4) 0.03 0.3 0.08
General health 0.0 (0.0, 0.0) 0.0 (0.0, 25.0) 25.0 (0.0, 50.0) 0.3 0.9 0.5
General vision 0.0 (0.0, 20.0) 20.0 (0.0, 20.0) 0.0 (−20.0, 20.0) 0.7 0.5 0.7
Ocular pain 0.0 (−12.5, 25.0) 0.0 (0.0, 0.0) −18.8 (−37.5, 0.0) 0.2 0.7 0.4
Near activities 0.0 (0.0, 8.3) 0.0 (−4.2, 4.2) −16.7 (−50, 16.7) 0.8 0.3 1.0
Distance activities 0.0 (0.0, 25.0) 0.0 (−8.3, 0.0) −4.2 (−8.3, 0.0) 0.2 0.06 1.0
Vision specific social functioning 0.0 (0.0, 25.0) 0.0 (0.0, 0.0) −25.0, (−25.0, −25.0) 0.02 0.1 0.03
Vision specific mental health 12.5 (0.0, 18.8) 0.0 (−6.3, 0.0) −17.7 (−18.8, −16.7) 0.03 0.03 0.2
Vision specific role difficulties 12.5 (0.0, 12.5) 0.0 (0.0, 0.0) −37.5 (−37.5, −37.5) 0.04 0.6 0.052
Vision specific dependency 0.0 (0.0, 0.0) 0.0 (0.0, 0.0) −16.7 (−25.0, −8.3) 0.007 0.8 0.055
Driving 0.0 (0.0, 16.7) 0.0 (0.0, 0.0) −8.3 (−8.3, −8.3) 0.05 0.3 0.3
Color vision 0.0 (0.0, 0.0) 0.0 (0.0, 0.0) −12.5 (−25.0, 0.0) 0.03 0.7 0.2
Peripheral vision 0.0 (0.0, 25.0) 0.0 (0.0, 25.0) −12.5 (−25.0, 0.0) 0.3 0.4 0.2

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