Concept | Participants reporting concept, n | Spontaneous, % participants reporting concepta | Probed, % participants reporting concepta | Other terms used to describe concept | Example quote (participant) |
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Discharge | 22 | 100 | 0 | Crust/crusty/crusting (n = 6), yellow (n = 4), like something was in the eye (n = 3), gooey (n = 3) | … I got up in the morning, my eye was like, like crusted shut … so I’d have to really get the cotton balls, put them on, you know, wet them and kind of wipe the stuff out of my eye, and that was like probably every 15, 20 min (adult patient) |
Red/pink eyes | 22 | 95 | 5 | Pink (n = 5), red (n = 4), irritated (n = 4) | Actually, she started rubbing her eyes. And then I noticed her eye was redder than the other eye (caregiver) |
Itching/Itchiness | 22 | 68 | 32 | Rubbing eyes (n = 11), itch/itches/itching (n = 10), irritated/irritation/irritating (n = 4) | … It would itch a little bit so I would rub my eye and then it would just keep getting worse and worse...I wanted to like do something but there was really nothing that I could do (child patient) |
Swelling/puffiness | 12 | 100 | 0 | Puffy/puffiness (n = 7), eye bags (n = 2) | Yeah, puffy, swollen. A mess, wore sunglasses to go to weddings (adult patient) |
Watery eyes | 17 | 41 | 59 | Cry/crying (n = 3), tears (n = 2), runny/running (n = 2), watery (n = 2), glassy/glossy (n = 2) | … kind of irritating … I had runny eyes and in between the mucus cleaning up, my eyes were running because I was constantly blinking … (adult patient) |
Pain | 13 | 54 | 46 | Hurt/hurting (n = 5), burning (n = 4), itchy/itching (n = 3) | It felt like something was in your eye or like just – it was like stinging a little bit and it wasn’t that bad but it just hurt and you could tell that it was hurting (child patient) |
Burning | 12 | 42 | 58 | Burned (n = 3), uncomfortable (n = 2), irritated/irritating (n = 2) | That’s like it wasn’t where it is like you slide some kind of chemical in your eye. It wasn’t like that type of burning, but it was like an irritating type of burn (adult patient) |
Foreign body sensation | 18 | 28 | 72 | Like something is in eye (n = 9), itch/itching/itchiness (n = 6), scratchy (n = 2), constantly picking at the eye (n = 2), eyelash in/on the eye (n = 2) | … like if you get a piece of sand in your eye or something like that. Kind of scratchy I guess (adult patient) |
Discomfort | 21 | 10 | 90 | Itchy/itching (n = 7), like something in the eye (n = 6), uncomfortable (n = 4) | Um, more of discomfort, um, because she wanted to rub her eye a lot. She just kept saying it feel like something’s in my eye (caregiver) |