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. 2017 Jan 13;31(4):511–518. doi: 10.1038/eye.2016.316

Table 1. Child-appropriate PROMs for children and young people with visual impairment (VI) (regardless of the VI cause)a.

Construct measured Instrument name Year and country of development Languages the instrument is available in Age range of respondentsb
Functional vision/visual ability Cardiff Visual Ability Questionnaire (CVAQC)39 2010, UK English Children and young people aged 5–18 years
  LV Prasad-Functional Vision Questionnaire (LVP-FVQ)40 2003, India Indian English, Hindi, Telugu Children and young people aged 8–18 years
  LV Prasad – Functional Vision Questionnaire Second Version (LVP-FVQ II)41 2012, India Indian English, Hindi, Telugu Children and young people aged 8–16 years
  Functional Vision Questionnaire for Children and Young people (FVQ_CYP)20 c 2013, UK English Children and young people aged 10–15 years
Vision-related quality of life Children's Visual Function Questionnaire (CVFQ)42, 43 2004, USA English Children aged 0–7 years (parent-reported)
  The impact of vision impairment on children (IVI_C)44, 45 2011, Australia English Children and young people aged 8–18 years
  Vision-related Quality of Life of Children & Young People (VQoL_CYP)19, 46 2011, UK English Children and young people aged 10–15 years
a

Adapted from: Tadić et al;21 see the paper also for a detailed outline of other eye disorder specific instruments for use in Paediatric Ophthalmology.

b

All instruments are suitable for self-reporting by children/young people, apart from the CVFQ, which is intended as a proxy/parent reported instrument.

c

The FVQ_CYP was developed after the original review (from which this table was adapted) was published.