Ocular Discomfort and Quality of Life Among Patients in the Dry Eye Assessment and Management Study.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To assess the association of severity of ocular discomfort with measures of quality of life among patients with moderate to severe dry eye disease (DED).

Methods

This is a prospective, observational, cohort study within a randomized clinical trial. Patients (N = 535) in the Dry Eye Assessment and Management study with moderate to severe DED completed the Ocular Surface Disease Index on DED symptoms, the SF-36 on quality of life, and the Brief Ocular Discomfort Inventory questionnaire and had a comprehensive ophthalmic assessment by a study-certified clinician. The ocular discomfort on average over the past week was scored on an 11-point scale (0 for no discomfort and 10 for discomfort as bad as you can imagine).

Results

The average ocular discomfort scores for

SUBMITTER: Sayegh RR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8175479 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature