Skip to main page content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Dot gov

The .gov means it’s official.
Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site.

Https

The site is secure.
The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely.

Access keys NCBI Homepage MyNCBI Homepage Main Content Main Navigation
. 2024 Apr 19;87(4):e2023.
doi: 10.5935/0004-2749.2023-0042. eCollection 2024.

Assessment of quality of life, psychosocial, and epidemiological aspects in patients diagnosed with tuberculous uveitis

Luci Meire P Silva  1 , Tiago Eugênio Faria E Arantes  1 , Aristófanes Canamary Jr  1 , Yuslay Fernández Zamora  1 , Luciana Peixoto S Finamor  1 , Ester Abigail Martins  1 , Ricardo Pedro Casaroli-Marano  1   2 , Cristina Muccioli  1
Affiliations

Assessment of quality of life, psychosocial, and epidemiological aspects in patients diagnosed with tuberculous uveitis

Luci Meire P Silva et al. Arq Bras Oftalmol. .

Abstract

Purpose: To assess the quality of life in patients diagnosed as having tuberculous uveitis and its association with sociodemographic, clinical, and psychosocial aspects.

Method: By conducting standardized interviews, clinical and demographic data were collected using a measure developed in this study. This measure was applied in addition to other measures, namely SF-12, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, and NEI-VFQ-39, which were used to assess health-related quality of life, anxiety and depression symptoms, and visual functioning.

Results: The study included 34 patients [mean age: 46.5 ± 15.1 years, female patients: 21 (61.8%)]. The mean of the VFQ-39 score was 74.5 ± 16.6 and that of SF-12 physical and mental component scores were 45.8 ± 10.1 and 51.6 ± 7.5, respectively, for the health-related quality of life. Anxiety symptoms were the most prevalent compared with depression symptoms and were found in 35.3% of the participants.

Conclusion: Tuberculous uveitis affects several scales of quality of life, thereby affecting a population economically active with a social, psychological, and economic burden.

PubMed Disclaimer

Conflict of interest statement

Disclosure of potential conflicts of interest: None of the authors have any potential conflicts of interest to disclose.

References

    1. World Health Organization (WHO) Visual impairment and blindness. Geneva: WHO;; 2023. [cited 2023 Sep 9]. Available fram: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/blindness-and--visual-i... .
    1. Silva LM, Arantes TE, Casaroli-Marano R, Vaz T, Belfort R., Jr, Muccioli C. Quality of life and psychological aspects in patients with visual impairment secondary to uveitis: a clinical study in a tertiary care hospital in Brazil. Ocul Immunol Inflamm. 2019;27(1):99–107. - PubMed
    1. Gameiro AR, Filho, Albuquerque AF, Martins DG, Costa DS. Epidemiological analysis of cases of uveitis in a tertiary Hospital. Rev Bras Oftalmol. 2017;76(4):181–185.
    1. Silva LM, Muccioli C, Oliveira F, Arantes TE, Gonzaga LR, Nakanami CR. Visual impairment from uveitis in a reference hospital of Southeast Brazil: a retrospective review over a twenty years period. Arq Bras Oftalmol. 2013;76(6):366–369. - PubMed
    1. Gonzalez Fernandez D, Nascimento H, Nascimento C, Muccioli C, Belfort R., Jr. Uveitis in São Paulo, Brazil: 1053 New Patients in 15 Months. Ocul Immunol Inflamm. 2017;25(3):382–387. - PubMed