Social impact of the visual quality of life in patients who had underwent surgery of senile cataract

Romni Pérez Gil; Lianet Mayor Castellano; Rosabel Lozada Bazain; Tania Cisneros Causillo

2018, Number 3

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Rev Hum Med 2018; 18 (3)

Social impact of the visual quality of life in patients who had underwent surgery of senile cataract

Pérez GR, Mayor CL, Lozada BR, Cisneros CT

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It is presented the results of the investigation “The quality of life in patients with senile cataract attended in Nuevitas from June to December, 2016", with the objective to demonstrate the social impact of the surgery. For the descriptive, longitudinal, pilot study were selected 65 patients (65 eyes), which constitute the chosen sample. To measure the impact there was applied a chart of information compilation, and the questionnaire of quality of life relative to the vision (QOLQ-15) pre and postoperative. It was concluded that all the patients were operated due to a pronounced visual and functional deterioration. After the surgery a satisfactory visual recovery was achieved, with a better quality of life that reveals highly significant values from the clinical, psychological and social point of view that they contributed to the reincorporation of these elders to the society.