| CANDEES | Canadian Dry Eye Epidemiology Study |
| CDERQOL | Chinese version of Dry Eye-Related Quality of Life |
| CLDEQ | Contact Lens Dry Eye Questionnaire |
| CLDEQ-8 | Contact Lens Dry Eye Questionnaire-8 |
| DED | Dry Eye Disease |
| DEEP | Dry Eye Screening questionnaire for Dry Eye Epidemiology Projects |
| DEQ | Dry Eye Questionnaire |
| DEQ-5 | Dry Eye Questionnaire-5 |
| DEQS | Dry Eye-Related Quality-of-life Score |
| FDA | Food and Drug Administration |
| HRQL | Health-Related Quality of Life |
| ICC | Intraclass Correlation Coefficient |
| IDEEL | Impact of Dry Eye in Everyday Life |
| J-CLDEQ-8 | Japanese Contact Lens Dry Eye Questionnaire-8 |
| J-OSDI | Japanese version of the Ocular Surface Disease Index |
| MCID | Minimal Clinically Important Difference |
| MGD | Meibomian Gland Dysfunction |
| N/A | Not Applicable |
| NEI VFQ-25 | 25-Item National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire |
| OCI | Ocular Comfort Index |
| OCI-C | Chinese version of the Ocular Comfort Index |
| OSD | Ocular Surface Disease |
| OSD-QoL | OSD Quality of Life |
| OSDI | Ocular Surface Disease Index |
| PRO | Patient-Reported Outcome |
| QoL | Quality of Life |
| SANDE | Symptom Assessment in Dry Eye |
| SESoD | Subjective Evaluation of Symptom of Dryness |
| SIDEQ | Single Item Score Dry Eye Questionnaire |
| SPEED | Standard Patient Evaluation of Eye Dryness questionnaire |
| SSI | Sicca Symptom Inventory |
| TERTC-DEQ | Texas Eye Research and Technology left Dry Eye Questionnaire |
| TFBUT | Tear Film Break Up Time |
| UNC DEMS | University of North Carolina Dry Eye Management Scale |
| VAS | Visual Analog Scale |