Changes in quality-of-life of patients with concomitant exotropia after surgery
- Resource Type
- article
- Authors
- Hong-Ying Qin; Feng-Wei Song; Zhao-Hui Sun; Bin-Bin Chen
- Source
- Guoji Yanke Zazhi, Vol 14, Iss 9, Pp 1736-1738 (2014)
- Subject
- concomitant exotropia
quality-of-life
questionnaire
Ophthalmology
RE1-994
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1672-5123
AIM: To evaluate changes in quality-of-life of adults with concomitant exotropia before and after surgery.METHODS:A retrospective cohort method was used in this research. Sixty-five patients with concomitant exotropia(ranged from 18-30 years)were enrolled. Quality of life was studied with 2 different questionnaires \〖the Adult Strabismus-20(AS-20)and the MOS 36-item Short-Form health survey(SF-36)\〗, which patients completed preoperatively and at 3mo postoperatively.RESULTS:With the AS-20, 3mo after surgery, the mean psychosocial and visual function scores of AS-20 improved significantly(PPP>0.05).CONCLUSION:Surgical treatment of concomitant exotropia in adults gives a highly significant improvement in quality-of-life scores. We should pay more attention to the impact of strabismus on quality of life clinically to improve the outcome of the surgery.