Table 2.
Baseline vision-related quality of life scores for the Control and Under-corrected Refractive Error (UCRE) groups as measured by the 25-Item National Eye Institute-Visual Functioning Questionnaire (NEI-VFQ-25).
| Time 1 NEI-VFQ 25 Questionnaire |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Control group (n=76) | UCRE group (n=26) | p value a | |||
| Mean (Std Dev) | Median | Mean (Std Dev) | Median | ||
| Composite score | 84.7 (16.9) | 91.9 | 72.7 (17.3) | 75.3 | <0.001 |
| General Health | 47.4 (24.7) | 50.0 | 51.9 (32.3) | 50.0 | 0.468 |
| General Vision | 68.7 (18.2) | 72.5 | 57.9 (23.4) | 55.0 | 0.012 |
| Ocular Pain | 82.7 (22.4) | 87.5 | 75.0 (22.9) | 75.0 | 0.073 |
| Near Vision Activities | 80.2 (22.4) | 83.3 | 77.1 (21.6) | 79.2 | 0.476 |
| Distance Vision Activities | 86.4 (21.4) | 91.7 | 65.4 (19.9) | 62.5 | <0.001 |
| Social Functioning | 93.4 (14.6) | 100 | 79.3 (21.2) | 87.5 | <0.001 |
| Mental Functioning | 78.8 (25.1) | 87.5 | 61.3 (27.8) | 68.8 | 0.003 |
| Role Difficulties | 82.1 (27.3) | 100 | 69.2 (28.3) | 75.0 | 0.010 |
| Dependency | 90.4 (21.2) | 100 | 72.1 (29.9) | 79.2 | <0.001 |
| Driving | 86.3 (14.9) | 91.7 | 64.0 (19.1) | 58.3 | <0.001 |
| Color Vision | 96.7 (14.3) | 100 | 96.2 (9.2) | 100 | 0.206 |
| Peripheral Vision | 88.8 (21.4) | 100 | 80.0 (27.0) | 100 | 0.111 |
a
Non-parametric Mann-Whitney U test.