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Depression symptoms related to poor self-reported, but not clinical, visual function

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Symptoms of depression are related to worse self-reported visual function, not clinically poor visual function, in patients with newly diagnosed open-angle glaucoma, according to a new analysis of Collaborative Initial Glaucoma Treatment Study data.

Henry D. Jampel, MD, MHS, and colleagues at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore studied patients' responses to quality-of-life telephone interviews. The interviews included the 33-item visual activities questionnaire, six items from a disease-specific health perceptions index and eight questions from the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale, according to the study.

The researchers found no significant correlation between visual acuity or visual field and patients' responses to the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale.

"The strongest correlation between a clinical measure and an item from the [health perceptions index] was between worse [visual field] and worry about the possibility of blindness," the authors wrote.

The study is published in the August issue of American Journal of Ophthalmology.