The influence of personality on the quality of vision after multifocal intraocular lens implantation.
Eur J Ophthalmol
; 34(1): 154-160, 2024 Jan.
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ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
To assess the possible correlation between patients' personality traits and subjective perception of quality of vision (QoV), after multifocal intraocular lens (mIOL) implantation.METHODS:
patients who had bilateral implantation of a non-diffractive X-WAVE or a trifocal lens were assessed 6 months postoperatively. Patients answered the NEO-Five Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI-20) questionnaire ("Big Five five-factor personality model") to examine their personality. Six months following surgery, patients were asked to fill a QoV questionnaire where they graded the frequency of 10 common visual symptoms. Primary outcomes were to evaluate the correlation between personality scores and the reported frequency of visual disturbances.RESULTS:
The study comprised 20 patients submitted to bilateral cataract surgery, 10 with a non-diffractive X-WAVE lens (AcrySof® IQ Vivity) and 10 with a trifocal lens (AcrySof® IQ PanOptix). Mean age was 60.23 (7.06) years. Six months following surgery, patients with lower scores of conscientiousness and extroversion reported a higher frequency of visual disturbances (blurred vision, P = .015 and P = .009, seeing double images P = .018 and P = .006, and having difficulties focusing, P = .027 and P = .022, respectively). In addition, patients with high neuroticism scores had more difficulty focusing (P = .033).CONCLUSIONS:
In this study, personality traits such as low conscientiousness and extroversion and high neuroticism significantly influenced QoV perception 6 months after bilateral multifocal lens implantation. Patients' personality questionnaires could be a useful preoperative assessment test to a mIOL.Key words
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Phacoemulsification
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Multifocal Intraocular Lenses
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Lenses, Intraocular
Type of study:
Prognostic_studies
Limits:
Humans
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Middle aged
Language:
En
Journal:
Eur J Ophthalmol
Journal subject:
OFTALMOLOGIA
Year:
2024
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Portugal