VRQOL in Cataract Patients During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Medical University Innsbruck

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Senile Cataract

Treatments: Other: Questionnaire

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04468308

VRQOL Cataract COVID-19

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this questionnaire survey is to evaluate the improvement in vision-related quality of life before and after cataract surgery using the National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire 25 and the delay of improvement in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Enrollment: 116 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 50+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age ≥ 50 years
• Senile cataract
• Indication for unilateral or bilateral cataract surgery
• Postponed cataract surgery due to the COVID-19 pandemic
• Signed and dated declaration of consent

Exclusion criteria

• Complex form of cataract (traumatic cataract, secondary cataract after intraocular inflammation)
• Amblyopia on the eye that is to be operated on
• Severe, visually impairing eye disease on the eye that is to operated on
• Known dementia or memory problems

Trial design

116 participants in 1 patient group

Senile Cataract

Description:

Patient with senile cataract, whose cataract surgery was postponed in the COVID-19 pandemic

Treatment:

Other: Questionnaire