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KMID : 1159320160180020215
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Korean Journal of Vision Science
2016 Volume.18 No. 2 p.215 ~ p.222
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Study on the Dry Eye Disease and the Quality of Life of University Students
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Park Jee-Hyun
Kim Jung-Hee
Hong Kyung-Hee
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Abstract
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Purpose: To examine the environmental factors affecting the dry eye disease through the McMonnies and OSDI questionnaires and determine the relationship between the dry eye disease and the quality of life by verifying the effects of the syndromes on the quality of life (WHOQOL-BREF).
Methods: A self-administered questionnaire survey was conducted with 490 students from universities in the Chungnam area from March through April of 2016. A total of 490 copies of the questionnaire were distributed and 486 of them were retrieved and analyzed excluding 4 copies from those who insincerely responded.
Results: Among the 486 respondents, the number of those with dry eye disease was 149 in the McMonnies questionnaire and 119 in the OSDI questionnaire respectively. The number of those with dry eye disease in both the questionnaires was 62. The quality of life of the respondents classified as having dry eye disease in the McMonnies questionnaire showed negative correlations in the domains of physical health, psychology, and environment. The quality of life of the respondents classified as having dry eye disease in the OSDI questionnaire showed negative correlations in the
domains of overall health, physical health, psychology, social relation, and environment. The quality of life of the respondents classified as having dry eye disease in both the questionnaires showed a lower quality of life than those with the ordinary eyes in the domains of overall health, physical health, psychology, and environment with the scores at 6.23, 21.24, 19.23, and 25.68 respectively and were statistically significant.
Conclusions: Attention needs to be called to psychological, social, and environmental issues as well as to the domains of physical health with the awareness that dry eye disease could lower the quality of life in all the domains.
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KEYWORD
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Dry eye disease, Quality of life, McMonnies, OSDI
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