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GONZALEZ IGLESIAS, Yaney et al. Behaviour of health-related quality of life before and after cataract surgery. Rev Cubana Oftalmol [online]. 2007, vol.20, n.1, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1561-3070.

In recent times, the health-related quality of life is a reliable tool to evaluate vision-related quality of life in patients with ocular affections. In the present study, the vision-related quality of life questionnaire (VQOL-15) was used to evaluate this important aspect in patients with senile cataract before surgery and 4 months after.  A comparative prospective intervention study was performed on patients operated from cataract, before and after surgery, in the period of July 1st, 2005 to July 1st, 2006.  It was found that the average age was 73 years and they were mostly Caucasians and males. It was demonstrated that the quality of life before surgery was 44,1 and afterwards, it  was 80,6, with p=0.0000. The conclusion was that VQOL-15 is a very useful tool that may be adjusted to our context in order to measure vision-related quality of life in patients with cataract

Palavras-chave : VQOL-15; quality of life; surgery; cataracts.