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Vision Related Quality of Life in Patients with Diabetic Retinopathy
Ebru Nevin ÇETİN1, Yunus BULGU2, Mehmet ZENCİR3, Avni Murat AVUNDUK4, Volkan YAYLALI4, Cem YILDIRIM4
1M.D. Asistant Professor, Pamukkale University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology, Denizli/TURKEY
2M.D. Asistant, Pamukkale University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology, Denizli/TURKEY
3M.D. Professor, Pamukkale University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Public Healt, Denizli/TURKEY
4M.D. Professor, Pamukkale University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology, Denizli/TURKEY
Purpose: To assess vision related quality of life (VRQoL) in patients with diabetic retinopathy (DR).
Materials and Methods: Ninety-three patients with DR were included in the study. Turkish version of VFQ (Visual function questionnaire) -25 was used for measuring VRQoL. The effects of age, gender, education, duration of diabetes mellitus (DM), macular edema (ME), HbA1c, comorbidity, medication, visual acuity (VA) and severity of DR on VRQoL were searched.
Results: Composite VFQ-25 score was significantly higher in patients who had better education, had a shorter duration of DM and had better VA. Gender, education and comorbidities were significantly associated with some of the subscales. After adjusted for the effect of age, gender, education, severity of DM, comorbidities, VA, HbA1c, laser photocoagulation, ME and medications; VA and HbA1c were significantly associated with composite score.
Conclusions: High HbA1c and poor VA is significantly associated with poor VRQoL. From the patients' perspective, DR also has an effect on general health, mental health and role difficulties.
Keywords : Diabetes mellitus, diabetic retinopathy, quality of life, VFQ-25, visual acuity
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