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Glaucoma can affect patient mobility, even if good vision remains, study suggests
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Patients with glaucoma can encounter problems with mobility and other activities of daily living, despite having good visual acuities and visual fields, Australian researchers found.
John Ferraro, BOrth, and colleagues at the University of Melbourne, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, assessed visual fields and daily living activities of 79 glaucoma patients. Activities of daily living were assessed using the Impact of Vision Impairment (IVI) questionnaire. Only mobility showed an independent relationship between VA and IVI score (P < .03).
The authors noted that about 25% of patients reported being moderately to severely restricted in mobility activities, despite only relatively minor binocular field loss.
The study was published in Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology.