ArticleJournal of ophthalmology2021
The Impact of Cataract Surgery on Vision-Related Quality of Life and Psychological Distress in Monocular Patients.
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- Intermediate Visual Performance of Clareon Versus Eyhance Enhanced Monofocal Intraocular Lenses.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Joint association of postoperative visual acuity status and baseline loneliness with cognitive impairment after cataract surgery in older adults: a retrospective cohort study.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
- Timing of the modified yamane technique in complicated cataract surgery: same session or second session?International ophthalmology · 2025Article
- Visual and health-related quality of life in cataract patients versus healthy controls.International journal of ophthalmology · 2025Article
- Quality of Life after Cataract Surgery.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- A Multisite Longitudinal Investigation of Psychological Outcomes Following Cataract Surgery in India.Indian journal of psychological medicine · 2023Article
- Vision-Related Quality of Life following Combined Cataract and Minimally Invasive Glaucoma Surgery or Cataract Surgery Alone in Glaucoma Patients.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Time trends and gender disparities of Chinese cataract burden and their predictions.International journal of ophthalmology · 2023Article
- Metabolic Syndrome Is Associated with Cataract in a Large Taiwanese Population Study.Nutrients · 2022Article
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Abstract
purposeTo determine the changes in vision-related quality of life and psychological distress after cataract surgery in monocular patients and to compared these with a control group of age- and gender-matched binocular patients.
methodsWe enrolled 40 monocular patients and 40 binocular patients who underwent cataract surgery from August 2017 to December 2018. All participants undertook eye examinations and answered questionnaires (the National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire, Self-rating Anxiety Scale, and Self-rating Depression Scale) before and after cataract surgery.
resultThe monocular patients had significantly worse mean CDVA than the binocular patients before and after surgery. However, there was no significant difference between the increases gained by the two groups. Mean composite VFQ-25 scores of the monocular group were significantly lower than those of the binocular group before and after surgery, but the improvement experienced by the monocular group was statistically larger than the binocular group (37.20 ± 12.84 vs. 19.11 ± 5.13,
conclusionMonocular patients reported greater improvement in vision-related quality of life and greater decline in the level of anxiety and depression than binocular control subjects, despite having similar CDVA gains after cataract surgery. We argue that it is not a better choice for monocular patients to delay cataract surgery until the cataract is very advanced. A clear understanding of the impact of cataract surgery on vision-related quality of life and psychological distress in monocular patients is needed by ophthalmologists when making surgery decision.
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