[Clinico-statistical study on availability of Esterman disability score for assessment of mobility difficulty in patients with visual field loss].
OBJECTIVE
The visual efficiency scale currently adopted to determine the legal grade of visual disability associated with visual field loss in Japan is not appropriate for the evaluation of disability regarding daily living activities. We investigated whether Esterman disability score (EDS) is suitable for the assessment of mobility difficulty in patients with visual field loss.


METHODS
The correlation between the EDS calculated from Goldmann's kinetic visual field and the degree of subjective mobility difficulty determined by a questionnaire was investigated in 164 patients with visual field loss. The correlation between the EDS determined using a program built into the Humphrey field analyzer and that calculated from Goldmann's kinetic visual field was also investigated.


RESULTS
The EDS based on the kinetic visual field was correlated well with the degree of subjective mobility difficulty, and the EDS measured using the Humphrey field analyzer could be estimated from the kinetic visual field-based EDS.


CONCLUSIONS
Instead of the currently adopted visual efficiency scale, EDS should be employed for the assessment of mobility difficulty in patients with visual field loss, also to establish new judgment criteria concerning the visual field.
Yamagata
Yoshitaka
Y
Department of Ophthalmology, Hyogo College of Medicine, Hyogo-ken, Japan. heg48301@hcc5.bai.ne.jp
Terada
Yuko
Y
Suzuki
Atsushi
A
Mimura
Osamu
O
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008124:Locomotion / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014786:Vision Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D014794:Visual Fields; D055815:Young Adult