[Comparison between self-reported quality of vision and visual acuity in a low-income elderly population in the city of São Paulo].
OBJECTIVE
Self-reported visual function questionnaires are becoming more common in clinical research. The purpose of this study is to evaluate and correlate self-reported visual function assessed by a visual function questionnaire with visual acuity.


METHODS
806 patients aged 60 years and older, who were included in an epidemiological eye study, were interviewed and present visual acuity for near and distance was taken; they also answered a visual function questionnaire.


RESULTS
Weak correlations were found between self-reported visual function assessed by a visual function questionnaire and visual acuities for both distance and near.


CONCLUSIONS
Self-reported visual function assessed by a visual function questionnaire did not correspond to visual acuity, nevertheless it can provide important information to the ophthalmologist.
Departamento de Oftalmologia, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Rafael Werneck
RW
Cinoto
Adriana
A
Berezovsky
Rubens
R
Belfort
Solange Rios
SR
Salomão
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011203:Poverty; D012649:Self Concept; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014786:Vision Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014787:Vision Tests; D014792:Visual Acuity