Quality of life in intermittent exotropia for Korean children and their parents.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients with strabismus are more likely to have mental health problems, including high rates of depressive symptoms and social phobia. Intermittent exotropia (IXT) typically occurs in early childhood and is more common in Asian populations. We aim to assess the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) concerns in children with intermittent exotropia (IXT) using the Intermittent Exotropia Questionaire (IXTQ), and their associations with the clinical severity of IXT and the parents' HRQOL concerns.

Methods

IXT, defined as both distance and near exodeviation ≥ 10 prism diopters were eligible for inclusion. The final IXTQ score is calculated using the mean score for all items, and ranges from 0 (worst HRQOL) to 100 (best HRQOL). The correlations of child IXTQ scores wi

SUBMITTER: Oh JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10134591 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature