How Has Glaucoma Affected Your Quality of Life?

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Conditions studied: Glaucoma, Quality of Life

In brief

Hypothesis 1: Self-reported health-related quality of life decreases as vision impairment worsens in subjects with glaucoma. Hypothesis 2: Changes in health-related quality of life are associated with changes in clinical measures of vision and performance-based measures of visual function.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01476644

Run by

Wills Eye

People needed

161

Starts

2011-10-01

Expected to finish

2017-06-01

Last updated by the study team

2019-11-15

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 80. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Minimum 2-year diagnosis of primary open-angle glaucoma, chronic primary angle-closure glaucoma or exfoliation glaucoma
• Disk Damage Likelihood Scale stages 5 through 8 with visual field loss
• Age between 21 and 80 years
• Able to understand and speak English

You may not qualify if…

• Unlikely to be available for annual ocular examination and reassessment across a 4-year period
• Neurological or musculoskeletal problems that would influence performance on activities of daily living
• Cognitively impaired, as assessed by a face-to-face Mini-Mental State Examination
• Incisional eye surgery within the past three months
• Laser therapy within the previous month
• Any cause for visual reduction other than glaucoma
• Any medical condition which in the investigator's opinion would preclude the subject from providing reliable and valid data

Where it is running

• Wills Eye Institute — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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