Glaucoma and Associated Visual Acuity and Field Loss Significantly Affect Glaucoma-Specific Psychosocial Functioning

Abstract

© 2014 American Academy of Ophthalmology.Objective: To examine the impact of glaucoma and visual acuity (VA) and visual field (VF) losses on psychosocial functioning (PF). Design: Cross-sectional study. Participants: We compared PF between 192 participants with bilateral glaucoma with VA or VF losses and 40 controls from a tertiary eye hospital clinic in Singapore. Methods: Glaucoma was defined using the Hodapp-Anderson-Parish criteria. Four psychosocial outcomes of the Glaucoma Quality of Life 36 questionnaire were psychometrically assessed using Rasch analysis. Multivariate regression was performed to determine the independent impact of glaucoma and VA and VF losses on PF. The impact of VA..