title: Dry Eye Symptoms, Patient-Reported Visual Functioning, and Health Anxiety Influencing Patient Satisfaction After Cataract Surgery.
abstract: To evaluate how patient satisfaction after cataract surgery is associated with postoperative visual acuity, visual functioning, dry eye signs and symptoms, health anxiety, and depressive symptoms.
  
  
  
  Fifty-four patients (mean age: 68.02 years) were assessed 2 months after uneventful phacoemulsification; 27 were unsatisfied with their postoperative results and 27 were satisfied. They completed the following questionnaires: Visual Function Index-14 (VF-14), Ocular Surface Disease Index (OSDI), Shortened Health Anxiety Inventory (SHAI), and Shortened Beck Depression Inventory. Testing included logarithm of the Minimum Angle of Resolution (logMAR) uncorrected visual acuity (UCVA) and best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA), dry eye tests (tear meniscus height and depth measured by spectral optical coherence tomography, tear film break-up time (TBUT), ocular surface staining, Schirmer 1 test, and meibomian gland dysfunction grading).
  
  
  
  Postoperative UCVA, BCVA, and the dry eye parameters - except TBUT - showed no statistically significant difference between the two groups (p > 0.130). However, the VF-14 scores, the OSDI scores, and the SHAI scores were significantly worse in the unsatisfied patient group (p < 0.002). No significant correlations were found between visual acuity measures and visual functioning (r < 0.170, p > 0.05). However, the VF-14 scores correlated with the OSDI scores (r = -0.436, p < 0.01) and the OSDI scores correlated with the SHAI scores (r = 0.333, p < 0.05). Multiple logistic regression revealed an adjusted association between patient satisfaction and dry eye symptoms (odds ratio = 1.46, 95% CI = 1.02-2.09, p = 0.038) and visual functioning (odds ratio = 0.78, 95% CI = 0.60-1.0, p = 0.048).
  
  
  
  Our results suggest that patient-reported visual functioning, dry eye symptoms, and health anxiety are more closely associated with patients' postoperative satisfaction than with the objective clinical measures of visual acuity or the signs of dry eye.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Ophthalmology , St. Pantaleon Hospital , Dunaújváros , Hungary.
authors.forename: Ildikó
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Szakáts
authors.affiliation: a Department of Ophthalmology , St. Pantaleon Hospital , Dunaújváros , Hungary.
authors.forename: Margit
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sebestyén
authors.affiliation: a Department of Ophthalmology , St. Pantaleon Hospital , Dunaújváros , Hungary.
authors.forename: Éva
authors.initials: É
authors.lastname: Tóth
authors.affiliation: b Institute of Behavioural Sciences, Semmelweis University , Budapest , Hungary.
authors.forename: György
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Purebl
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001007:Anxiety / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology*; D002387:Cataract Extraction / Q000009:adverse effects*; D015352:Dry Eye Syndromes / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D000071066:Patient Reported Outcome Measures; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D011446:Prospective Studies; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000379:methods*; D011788:Quality of Life; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014792:Visual Acuity
keywords: Cataract surgery; depressive symptoms; dry eye disease; health anxiety; patients’ satisfaction