Development of a quality-of-life questionnaire for adults with strabismus.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

We report the development of a patient-derived, health-related quality-of-life (HRQOL) questionnaire for adults with strabismus.

Design

Cross-sectional study.

Participants

Twenty-nine patients with strabismus in a first phase, and 32 patients with strabismus, 18 patients with other eye diseases, and 13 visually normal adults in a second phase.

Methods

Individual patient interviews generated 181 questionnaire items. For item reduction, we asked 29 patients with strabismus to complete the 181-item questionnaire, analyzed responses, and performed factor analysis. Two prominent factors were identified, and the 10 items with the highest correlation with each factor were selected. The final 20-item questionnaire (10 psychosocial items and 10 function items) w

SUBMITTER: Hatt SR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2817952 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature