[Analysis of the life quality of infectious and non-infectious patients with uveitis using the NEI-VFQ-25 questionnaire].
OBJECTIVE
To evaluate the life quality of patients with infectious and non-infectious uveitis evaluated at the uveitis service of the Hospital Universitário Clementino Fraga Filho-UFRJ, using the NEI-VFQ-25 questionnaire in order to clarify the importance of uveitis diagnosis and treatment as well as its consequences to visual and social functions of the patients.


METHODS
Prospective study of 30 patients with uveitis, who were divided into two groups according to the etiology, infectious and non-infectious, with the NEI-VFQ-25 form that evaluates the life quality regarding general and visual health which was applied twice to each patient.


RESULTS
The main cause of infectious uveitis was toxoplasmosis, and of the non-infectious was Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome. Concerning quality of life, general health is better in the infectious uveitis group, but ocular health is regular in both groups. Although visual deficit does not cause great disturbances and social restrictions, both groups show important emotional alteration, but in the non-infectious group this alteration causes a higher dependence level regarding daily activities.


CONCLUSIONS
The greater social dependence as well as that regarding performance of daily activities in the uveitis group of non-infectious cause is explained by the chronic and relapsing mode of these affections, which turns life quality lower if compared to the other group.
Mello
Paula Resende Aquino de Assis Pereira
PR
Serviço de Oftalmologia do Hospital Universitário Clementino Fraga Filho da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - Rio de Janeiro (RJ) - Brasil. paula.raap@gmail.com
Roma
Adriano de Carvalho
Ade C
Moraes Júnior
Haroldo Vieira
HV
D000203:Activities of Daily Living / Q000523:psychology; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003858:Dependency, Psychological; D005260:Female; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010146:Pain / Q000175:diagnosis; D011446:Prospective Studies; D011788:Quality of Life; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014605:Uveitis / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology*; D014792:Visual Acuity / Q000502:physiology; D055815:Young Adult