Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Table 6 Pearson correlations of NEI VFQ-25 subscale scores with visual acuity and visual field

From: Psychometric properties of the 25-item National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire (NEI VFQ-25), Japanese version

Subscale	Visual acuity*		Visual field**
	Better eye	Worse eye	Better eye	Worse eye
General health	0.06	0.06	0.03	-0.01
General vision	0.55	0.50	0.33	0.39
Near vision***	0.60 (0.64)	0.56 (0.59)	0.33 (0.34)	0.27 (0.30)
Distance vision***	0.60 (0.59)	0.51 (0.52)	0.60 (0.54)	0.52 (0.41)
Driving	0.58	0.56	0.61	0.44
Peripheral vision	0.06	0.06	0.45	0.41
Color vision	0.28	0.23	0.01	-0.06
Ocular pain	-0.02	-0.02	-0.15	-0.20
Vision-specific
Role limitation	0.51	0.46	0.36	0.19
Dependency	0.59	0.51	0.49	0.40
Social function	0.56	0.47	0.47	0.28
Mental health	0.55	0.49	0.49	0.41
25-item composite	0.61	0.54	0.49	0.39

Bold characters indicate correlation coefficients of 0.4 or greater.
* Visual acuity (logMAR) while wearing usual correction, in all subjects in Sample 1
** Visual field testing with the Humphrey Field Analyzer 30-2 (only glaucoma, n = 69)
*** Scores were recomputed after the substitution of items described in the text. Results of the recomputations are in parentheses.

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