Quality of life in idiopathic intracranial hypertension at diagnosis: IIH Treatment Trial results.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The study purpose was to examine vision-specific and overall health-related quality of life (QOL) at baseline in Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension Treatment Trial patients who were newly diagnosed and had mild visual loss. We also sought to determine the associations between vision-specific QOL scores and visual symptoms, visual function, pain, headache-related disability, and obesity.

Methods

We assessed QOL using the 36-Item Short Form Health Survey, National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire-25 (NEI-VFQ-25), and 10-Item NEI-VFQ-25 Neuro-Ophthalmic Supplement. We compared these results with those of previously reported idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) QOL studies. We assessed relationships between QOL and other clinical characteristics.

SUBMITTER: Digre KB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4478032 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature