%0 Journal Article
%T Assessment of quality of life, psychosocial, and epidemiological aspects in patients diagnosed with tuberculous uveitis.
%A Silva LMP
%A Arantes TEFE
%A Canamary A
%A Zamora YF
%A Finamor LPS
%A Martins EA
%A Casaroli-Marano RP
%A Muccioli C
%J Arq Bras Oftalmol
%V 87
%N 4
%D 2024
%M 38656022
%F 1.033
%R 10.5935/0004-2749.2023-0042
%X OBJECTIVE: To assess the quality of life in patients diagnosed as having tuberculous uveitis and its association with sociodemographic, clinical, and psychosocial aspects.
METHODS: By conducting standardized interviews, clinical and demographic data were collected using a measure developed in this study. This measure was applied in addition to other measures, namely SF-12, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, and NEI-VFQ-39, which were used to assess health-related quality of life, anxiety and depression symptoms, and visual functioning.
RESULTS: The study included 34 patients [mean age: 46.5 ± 15.1 years, female patients: 21 (61.8%)]. The mean of the VFQ-39 score was 74.5 ± 16.6 and that of SF-12 physical and mental component scores were 45.8 ± 10.1 and 51.6 ± 7.5, respectively, for the health-related quality of life. Anxiety symptoms were the most prevalent compared with depression symptoms and were found in 35.3% of the participants.
CONCLUSIONS: Tuberculous uveitis affects several scales of quality of life, thereby affecting a population economically active with a social, psychological, and economic burden.