Research on Life Quality of Old Cataract Patients Based on Variance Analysis

摘要

Cataract is a main reason to cause old people become blind. And this disease could influence patients' life quality significantly. This research is aimed to investigate cataract patients' life quality and provide the theory support to improve their life quality. In this research, 212 cataract patients were selected as subjects. And the inclusion criteria are elder patients who are more than 50 years old; most of them are from poor families and without medical insurance. A self-designed questionnaire was used as survey tool. It includes the Scale for Quality of Life-Damaged Vision Illness (SQOL-DVI) and some general information about patients. SQOL-DVI would reflect the life quality through four aspects. The effective recovery rate is 100.0 %. For symptoms and visual function, occupation, educational level, complicating disease, length of disease and visual acuity are the influencing factors with statistical significance (p ＜ 0.05). For physical function, gender, age, occupation, complicating disease, length of disease and visual acuity are the influencing factors with statistical significance (p ＜ 0.05). For social activities, gender, occupation, educational level, marital status, complicating disease and visual acuity are the influencing factors with statistical significance (p ＜ 0.05). For mental health, occupation, educational level, marital status, complicating disease, length of disease and visual acuity are the influencing factors with statistical significance (p ＜ 0.05). The results of this research showed that the life quality of old and poor cataract patients is not high and needs to be improved.