Visual Functioning and Health-related Quality-of-Life are Compromised in Patients with Uveitis

<p><i>Purpose</i>: To assess the vision-related (VR) and health-related (HR) quality-of-life (QoL) of patients with uveitis.</p> <p><i>Methods</i>: In total, 60 patients with uveitis, 81 patients with diabetic retinopathy (DR), and 70 healthy subjects completed the National Eye Institute Visual Functioning Questionnaire and the Medical Outcome Study 36-Item Short Form.</p> <p><i>Results</i>: Patients with uveitis reported lower HR- and VR-QoL than healthy subjects (<i>p<</i>0.05) and lower VR-QoL (<i>p<</i>0.001) than patients with DR. For patients with uveitis, multiple linear regression analyses indicated that lower HR-QoL scores were predicted by younger age (<i>p<</i>0.01), while lower VR-QoL scores were predicted by poorer visual acuity (<i>p</i><0.001), ocular comorbidities (<i>p</i><0.05), and female sex (<i>p</i><0.05).</p> <p><i>Conclusions</i>: Patients with uveitis have significantly poorer VR- and HR-QoL than healthy control subjects. Uveitis has a more debilitating impact on VR-QoL than DR.