Smartphone App-Based and Paper-Based Patient-Reported Outcomes Using a Disease-Specific Questionnaire for Dry Eye Disease: Randomized Crossover Equivalence Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Using traditional patient-reported outcomes (PROs), such as paper-based questionnaires, is cumbersome in the era of web-based medical consultation and telemedicine. Electronic PROs may reduce the burden on patients if implemented widely. Considering promising reports of DryEyeRhythm, our in-house mHealth smartphone app for investigating dry eye disease (DED) and the electronic and paper-based Ocular Surface Disease Index (OSDI) should be evaluated and compared to determine their equivalency.

Objective

The purpose of this study is to assess the equivalence between smartphone app-based and paper-based questionnaires for DED.

Methods

This prospective, nonblinded, randomized crossover study enrolled 34 participants between April 2022 and June 2022 at a universi

SUBMITTER: Nagino K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10436120 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature