Depression and quality of life in a community-based glaucoma-screening project
| Autor: | Matthew C.H. Rohn, Tingting Zhan, Kamran Rahmatnejad, Avrey Thau, Michael Waisbourd, Lisa A Hark, Eileen L. Mayro, Paul M. Gentile, Matthew E. Biron |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Visual acuity genetic structures Referral Cross-sectional study Population Visual Acuity MEDLINE Glaucoma Diagnostic Techniques Ophthalmological 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Quality of life Sickness Impact Profile Internal medicine Prevalence Humans Mass Screening Medicine 030212 general & internal medicine education Depression (differential diagnoses) Aged education.field_of_study Depression business.industry General Medicine Pennsylvania medicine.disease eye diseases Ophthalmology Cross-Sectional Studies Quality of Life 030221 ophthalmology & optometry Female sense organs Visual Fields medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | Canadian Journal of Ophthalmology. 53:354-360 |
| ISSN: | 0008-4182 |
| Popis: | To identify the prevalence and risk factors of depression among individuals given a glaucoma-related diagnosis at a screening program.Cross-sectional community-based in a university hospital.Volunteers from a community glaucoma-screening program.After collecting sociodemographic information, participants were administered the Geriatric Depression Scale-15 (GDS-15) and the National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire-25 (NEI-VFQ-25).Participants were predominantly African American (73.5%), older than 65 years (65.7%), single (75.4%), and female (66.8%). Among 268 participants, 89 were diagnosed with glaucoma and 179 as glaucoma suspects. The frequency of depression among the glaucoma and glaucoma suspect participants was 18% and 16.2%, respectively. The mean GDS-15 score was 2.4 ± 2.7 with no difference between glaucoma and glaucoma suspect groups, p = 0.654. The mean VFQ-25 score was 78.6 ± 15.9 and was lower in glaucoma (74.7 ± 19.7) than glaucoma suspect participants (80.4 ± 13.6), p = 0.003. Risk factors for depression included difficulties with paying expenses (p = 0.017), Asian race (p0.001), and poorer scores on the VFQ-25 subscales of "General Health" (p0.001), "Distance Activities" (p = 0.024), and "Dependency" (p = 0.001).Prevalence of depression in those diagnosed with glaucoma or glaucoma suspect was higher than previous estimates of the general population. Glaucoma-screening programs might benefit from including depression-screening protocols along with referral services or low-cost treatments of depression. |
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