Severe impairment of health-related quality of life in patients suffering from ocular surface diseases.

Aims: To evaluate health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in French patients suffering from ocular surface diseases (OSDs).

Background: Specific instruments exist in the OSD area, but they do not comprehensively cover all domains of HRQoL. Recently, the OSD-specific questionnaire (OSD-QoL) was developed to address this need.

Measurement of health-related quality of life with glaucoma: validation of the Glau-QoL 36-item questionnaire.

Purpose: To validate a glaucoma-specific health-related quality of life (HRQoL) questionnaire: the Glau-QoL.

Methods: Patients with ocular hypertension (OHT) or glaucoma took part in a cross-sectional psychometric validation study (n = 573) and a separate reproducibility study (n = 244). Patients answered the 36-item Glau-QoL, designed from in-depth patient interviews.

[Developing a questionnaire to evaluate pain in ocular or periocular pathologies: the ODEON questionnaire].

Introduction: Ophthalmologists contend with a wide range of painful acute and chronic diseases. However, there is no tool specific to ocular pain that aids the patient in describing and quantifying pain.

Purpose: Our objective was to develop a tool that would allow the ophthalmologist to identify the patient's pain quickly and precisely in order to measure its intensity and to determine possible causes.

[Creating a specific diagnostic and quality-of-life questionnaire for patients with ocular surface disease].

Introduction: Ocular surface diseases (OSD) affect about 15% of the population over 65 years of age. Nevertheless, OSD knowledge in the scientific community remains poor, and the healthcare system does not adequately recognize this disorder. However, many patients with OSD suffering from chronic pain experience substantial alteration in their quality of life (QoL).

[Creating a specific quality-of-life questionnaire in patients with glaucoma: item generation].

The methods for developing Health-Related Quality-of-Life (HRQoL) measures and their application in medical research have demonstrated their utility in various chronic, progressive, or life-threatening diseases. The efforts made to allow the patient's perspective to be included in the methodological framework of evidence-based medicine have been successful. The assumption of a strong relationship between clinical status and daily life is certainly valid in ophthalmology.