I am looking for questionnaires, where individuals can give information on their visual capacities, such as near/far vision, color vision, stereopsis, visual field etc. and also diseases, such as Glaucoma, cataracts, AMD etc.
Are there any self-report instruments available?
Thanks,
Steffen
A good review of some questionnaires is in Massof&Rubin, Survery of Ophthalmology, 2001; there is a nice questionnaire for navigation by Turano et al, 2005 (I think); also the National Eye Institute Visual Functionning questionnaire (VFQ-25)
I think the NEI VFQ-25 mentioned above might be the one you are looking for. However it may not have info on diseases such as glaucoma, cataracts and AMD. For disease related questionnaires, I think you may have to look for them individually.
yes there are several questionnaire around the world, the most used is NEI-VFQ25, that uses 25 question on visual abilities and it is available in most languages, I have pubilshed an italian questionnaire named Limoli Vingolo with 100 different questions on common life abilities and visual tasks but was in an italian journal and really I do not know if is still available.
Yes, there are series of self-reported questionnaires available. However, not all are good. I would like to direct you to my recent review paper, which lists out all the existing ophthalmic questionnaires and also provides a table with the recommended disease-specific questionnaires that have best measurement properties. The paper is "Khadka J et al . Quality assessment of ophthalmic questionnaires: review and recommendations. Optometry and vision science :2013;90:720-744. This paper was the featured in one of the feature issues of the Optom Vis Sci on "Measuring from Patients' perspectives." You can get the full text from my research gate page or from the journal website.
I appreciate other colleagues recommendations. However, both the NEI-VFQ and the VCM1 are not comprehensive and moreover are flawed psychometrically (i.e. measurement properties) in their original formats. I won't recommend to use them in their original forms. However, modified scales can be used. For the NEI VFQ, please read the papers by our group . Pesudovs K et al Remediating serious flaws in the National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire. Journal of cataract and refractive surgery 2010;36:718-732. 2.
Unfortunately, there are no existing or good questionnaire to assess just color vision, visual field or stereopsis. However, several disease-specific questionnaires have specific items (questions) referring to these visual functions. My review paper may be useful in exploring them. For near vision/distance vision, the subscales of the NEI-VFQ or the near vision subscale of the NEI-RQL are good.
Please refer to this paper. McAlinden C, Khadka J et al. Psychometric properties of the NEI-RQL-42 questionnaire in keratoconus. Investigative ophthalmology & visual science 2012;53:7370-7374.
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