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.