The impact of Diabetic Retinopathy on patients' quality of life : A comprehensive evaluation

• Manveen kaur kukreja,  
• sonam juneja,*  
• Anubha Bhatti,  
• saroj bala,  
• brijesh singla,  
• Gursimranjeet singh

Abstract

Aim & Objective- The Impact of Diabetic Retinopathy on patients' Quality of Life: A comprehensive evaluation. Background – To assess the quality of life in patients with diabetic retinopathy using NEI-VFQ 25 questionnaire, with comparison to patients without DR. Materials & Methods- This prospective study enrolled a total of 150 diabetic patients with 100 patients having diabetic retinopathy as case group and 50 patients with no diabetic retinopathy changes as control group. Quality of life was then compared between these two groups as well as with the severity of diabetic retinopathy using NEI-VFQ 25 questionnare. Results- Of the 150 patients, 49.3% were females and 50.7% were males. The mean age of the patients in case and control group was 60.58±8.12 and 64.48±8.76 years respectively. Majority of the sub scales had significantly higher (p<0.001) score in control group as compare to case group. The driving sub-scale had the lowest mean in both cases (36.57±40.76) as well as the control (52.14±46.84) group followed by the general health sub-scale (67.50±18.29 in the case group and 75 ± 0 in control group) and general vision subscale (67.5± 18.29 in case group and 76.5±5.99 in control group). Conclusion- The quality of life is poor in patients with diabetic retinopathy. It further deteriorates with the increased severity of diabetic retinopathy . Keywords- Quality of life, Diabetic retinopathy (DR), Diabetes mellitus (DM), visual impairment.

Keywords

Quality of life, Diabetic retinopathy (DR), Diabetes mellitus (DM), visual impairment.