Paediatrics With Cataracts Clinical Trial
Official title:
Health- and Vision-Related Quality of Life in Children and Young People With Childhood Glaucoma, Childhood Cataract and Congenital Eye Defects
The management of childhood glaucoma (CG), childhood cataract (CC) and other birth defects affecting the eyes requires frequent hospital attendances and often multiple surgical and medical interventions, and are often associated with poor vision. Chronic medical conditions and vision impairment can affect quality of life (QoL). The QoL of children with the above conditions has not previously been evaluated.
We wish to evaluate health related and vision related quality of life (HRQoL, VRQoL) in
children age 2 to 16 years with childhood glaucoma (CG), childhood cataract (CC) and
congenital eye defects microphthalmia, anophthalmia or coloboma (MAC).
We will recruit children who attend the children's eye clinics at Moorfields Eye Hospital at
City Road. We will include the following subgroups:
A) children with primary or secondary glaucoma B) children with cataract or previously
treated for cataract C) children with microphthalmia, anophthalmia or coloboma D) control
group: agematched children without eye and vision problems. We will ask children and their
carers to complete two age appropriate, validated questionnaires, the PedsQL (health related
quality of life) and the Cardiff Visual Ability Questionnaire for Children. From the medical
notes, we will record diagnosis and best corrected visual acuity with both eyes open. We
will also record details of previous and current treatment, such as number of previous
surgical interventions (sum of interventions right and left eye) and number of current
topical medications (sum of eyedrop applications per day right and left eye).
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Observational Model: Case Control, Time Perspective: Prospective