Resumen:
PURPOSE: To evaluate different aspects of the visual-related quality of life using the National Eye Institute Refractive Error Quality of Life (NEI RQL)-42 questionnaire in low and moderate myopic subjects corrected with different refractive treatments including laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis (LASIK), orthokeratology (OK), soft contact lenses (SCLs), and spectacles.
METHODS: The NEI RQL-42 questionnaire was administered to 217 subjects at one single clinic. All the questions consisted of 13 different subscales that were analyzed separately. The results from subjects with -1.00 to -3.00 diopter myopia corrected with LASIK (n=41), OK (n=37), SCLs (n=44), or spectacles (n=45) were compared with each other and with emmetropic subjects (n=50).
RESULTS: Statistically significant differences among all groups were found in all subscales, except for satisfaction with correction (P=0.135). The average decrease in quality of life compared with emmetropes were -7.1% (P=0.021) for LASIK, -13.0% (P<0.001) for OK, -15.8% (P<0.001) for spectacles, and -17.3% (P<0.001) for SCLs.
CONCLUSIONS: Although all patients in each group were considered to be successfully visually corrected, quality of life relate...