Attention and Its Relationship with Anxiety in Primary Open Angle Glaucoma Patients / 中山大学学报(医学科学版)

ABSTRACT

@#【Objective】 To explore the attention and its relationship with anxiety in patients with glaucoma.【Methods】A prospective case-control study was done on 20 primary open angle glaucoma（POAG）patients and 28 normal subjects. Response time with and without disturbance was examined by using Matlab software. Anxiety was assessed with State Anxiety Inventory（S- AI）and Trait Anxiety Inventory（T- AI）. Response time and inhibiting effects between two groups were compared by t test and Mann- Whitney U test ，respectively. Spearman correlation analysis was applied to determine the relationship between inhibiting effect and anxiety.【Results】The scores of S-AI and T-AI in POAG group were significantly higher than those in normal subjects（t = -3.912，P = 0.001；t = -2.127，P = 0.042）. There were statistically significant differences in the scores between groups even after gender was adjusted by using line regression model（β = 9.449，P = 0.000；β = 7.089，P = 0.018）. The average response time in POAG group（0.84±0.15）s was significantly longer than that in normal participants（0.75±0.14）s（t = -2.127，P = 0.039）. The difference was statistically insignificant when gender was adjusted by using line regression model（β = 0.063，P = 0.210）. The inhibiting effect in POAG group（0.126±0.089）s was longer than that in normal subjects（0.085±0.066）s（Z = -1.715，P = 0.086）. The inhabiting effect wasn′ t statistically significantly correlated with scores of S- AI and T- AI（P＞0.05）.【Conclusions】Patients with POAG showed severer anxiety than normal subjects but attention was comparable. There was no significant correlation between attention and anxiety.