Journal article

Reducing respondent burden: validation of the Brief Impact of Vision Impairment questionnaire

EK Fenwick, REK Man, G Rees, J Keeffe, TY Wong, EL Lamoureux

Quality of Life Research | SPRINGER | Published : 2017

Abstract

Purpose: To develop a psychometrically sound and valid Brief Impact of Vision Impairment (IVI) questionnaire. Methods: Cross-sectional data from four prospective studies (2001–2008) were pooled and randomly divided into development/validation sets (n = 416) each. Items with suboptimal psychometric properties were iteratively removed in the development set to form the Brief IVI. Psychometric properties of the Brief IVI were independently tested in the validation sample. Correlation between person measures from the original and Brief IVI was assessed [Pearson r and intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC)]. Criterion validity was determined by testing the Brief IVI’s ability to discriminate le..

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Grants

Awarded by National Health and Medical Research Council


Funding Acknowledgements

Prof. Ecosse Lamoureux was supported by an Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Senior Research Fellowship (#1045280). Dr. Eva Fenwick is currently funded by a NHMRC Early Career Fellowship (#1072987), and Dr. Gwyn Rees is funded by an NHMRC Career Development Fellowship (#1061801). The funding organizations had no role in the design or conduct of this research or preparation of this manuscript. The Centre for Eye Research Australia receives Operational Infrastructure Support from the Victorian Government.