Identifying Content for an Item Bank to Measure the Quality-of-Life Impact of Myopia Refractive Interventions.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To report on the content generation and item refinement phases for a myopia refractive intervention-specific quality-of-life (QoL) item bank that will be operationalized using computerized adaptive testing.

Methods

Myopia refractive intervention-specific QoL domains and items were generated from (1) a literature search of existing refractive-intervention QoL questionnaires; (2) semistructured interviews with myopic patients corrected using spectacles, contact lenses and/or refractive surgery (n = 32); (3) and myopia experts (n = 9) recruited from the Singapore National Eye Centre. After a thematic analysis, items were systematically refined and tested using cognitive interviews with 24 additional patients with corrected myopia.

Results

Of the 32 participants w

SUBMITTER: Man REK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10214877 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature