Table 2.

Item analysis of NEI VFQ-25

N	Item	Subscale	Measure of response
2	General vision	General vision	Quality (Excellent/Good/Fair/Poor/very poor/completely blind)
3	Worry about eyesight	Mental health	Frequencya
5	Reading normal newsprint	Near vision	Difficultyb
6	Seeing well up close	Near vision	Difficultyb
7	Finding objects on crowded shelf	Near vision	Difficultyb
8	Street signs	Distance vision Difficultyb
9	Going downstairs at night	Distance vision Difficultyb
11	Seeing how people react	Social function	Difficultyb
12	Matching clothes	Color vision	Difficultyb
13	Visiting others	Social function	Difficultyb
14	Going out to movies/plays	Distance vision Difficultyb
15	Driving in daylight	Driving	Difficulty [no/a little/moderate/extreme]
16	Driving in difficult conditions	Driving	Difficultyb
17	Accomplish less	Role limitation	Frequencya
18	Limited endurance	Role limitation	Frequencya
20	Stay home most of the time	Dependency	Agreementc
21	Frustrated	Mental health	Agreementc
22	No control	Mental health	Agreementc
23	Rely too much on others’ words	Dependency	Agreementc
24	Needed much help from others	Dependency	Agreementc
25	Embarrassment	Mental health	Agreementc

Notes:

^aNone of the time/a little of the time/some of the time/most of the time/all of the time.

^bNo difficulty/a little difficulty/moderate difficulty/extreme difficulty/stopped doing because of eyesight/stopped doing for other reasons or not interested in doing.

^cDefinitely true/mostly true/not sure/mostly false/definitely false.

This table is modified from an article by Marella et al, entitled, “The psychometric validity of the NEI VFQ-25 for use in a low-vision population” in Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2010;51(6):2878–2884 and republished with permission of the copyright holder, the Association for Research in vision and Ophthalmology.¹⁷

Abbreviation: NEI VFQ-25, National Eye Institute Visual Functioning Questionnaire 25-items.