April 2010
Volume 51, Issue 13
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ARVO Annual Meeting Abstract  |   April 2010
The Personal Burden of Decreased Vision-Targeted Health-Related Quality of Life in Nursing Home Residents
Author Affiliations & Notes
  • A. Elliott
    Division of Diabetes Translation, Centers for Disease Control and Preventi, Atlanta, Georgia
  • L. Dreer
    Department of Ophthalmology,
    University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama
  • G. McGwin, Jr.
    Departments of Ophthalmology, Epidemiology, and Surgery,
    University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama
  • C. Owsley
    Department of Ophthalmology,
    University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama
  • Footnotes
    Commercial Relationships  A. Elliott, None; L. Dreer, None; G. McGwin, Jr., None; C. Owsley, None.
  • Footnotes
    Support  Retirement Research Foundation, the EyeSight Foundation of Alabama, the Pearle Vision Foundation, National Institutes of Health grants R21-EY014071, and Research to Prevent Blindness, Inc.
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science April 2010, Vol.51, 939. doi:
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      A. Elliott, L. Dreer, G. McGwin, Jr., C. Owsley; The Personal Burden of Decreased Vision-Targeted Health-Related Quality of Life in Nursing Home Residents. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2010;51(13):939.

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Abstract

Purpose: : To present the bother subscales of the Nursing Home Vision-Targeted Health-Related Quality of Life Questionnaire (NHVQoL) and to examine their relationship to the original NHVQoL subscales and objective measures of visual function.

Methods: : 395 Nursing home residents completed the bother subscales. Associations between bother subscales and original subscales and objectively measured vision were evaluated.

Results: : Mean bother scores ranged from 1.97 to 2.30, reflecting an average rating of "a little" bother. For 20 NHVQoL items, > 50% of participants reported "a lot" of bother. All NHVQoL original subscale scores were moderately correlated with bother subscales (p <0.0001). Bother subscales and visual acuity were not highly correlated.

Conclusions: : Nursing home residents are bothered by reductions in vision-targeted health-related quality of life. The NHVQoL bother subscales may probe the personal burden of visual problems in this population that is not captured by the original subscales or objectively measuring visual function.

Keywords: quality of life 
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