Measuring Visual Disability due to Cataract - V2
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Measuring Visual Disability due to Cataract: Development of a cataract patient-reported outcome measure (Cat-PROM) - V2
IRAS ID
133732
Contact name
John Sparrow
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust
Research summary
Cataract is an extremely common potentially blinding age related condition. Cataract surgery is the most frequently undertaken surgical procedure on the NHS (~330,000 annually in England). Before and after surgery vision testing is normally done one eye at a time using the (opticians) letter chart. Although useful, testing in this way does not capture people’s everyday experience of their vision. Asking patients about everyday vision, in a structured way, allows the patient’s perception of their eyesight to be ‘measured’.
Our objective in this study will be to develop and test a suitable set of questions (Cat-PROM) for eliciting self-reported vision information from people with cataract. Testing will be done both before and after surgery to check that the questions work as intended. We have previously published on this with additional pilot work undertaken for this project.
Subsequent to this study we will use the Cat-PROM to undertake further research in this field as part of the Overall ‘host’ Research Programme.
REC name
North West - Haydock Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
13/NW/0616
Date of REC Opinion
14 Aug 2013
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion