TY - JOUR JF - sjimu JO - J. Ilam Uni. Med. Sci. VL - 21 IS - 6 PY - 2013 Y1 - 2013/12/01 TI - Comparing the Quality of Life in Patients Older than 50 Years Before and After Cataract Surgery in Chaharamahal and Bakhtiari TT - مقایسه کیفیت زندگی بیماران بالای 50 سال مروارید در استان چهارمحال و بختیاری N2 - Introduction: Cataract is the leading cause of poor vision in world which can affect the quality of life of individuals. Given the im-portance of medical interventions on the quality of life in the patients, we compared the quality of life in patients before and af-ter cataract surgery. Materials & Methods: The population und-er study included patients with cataract older than 50 years admitted for surgery in the hospitals of Chaharamahal and Bakht-iari province. A randomized sampling me-thod was made to recruit patients. Data collect-ion tool was a valid EQ5D ques-tionnaire that was completed two months before and three months after the surgery. Data was analyzed using SPSS16 software through independent and paired t-tests. Findings: A total of 98 patients entered the study of which 60 patients (61.2%) were fe-male and 38 patients (38.8%) were male. Age range was between 50 and 96 years and the mean age was 98.9±42.65 years. Averages age of females and males were 64.33±9.45 and 67.13±10.68 years, respe-ctively. Age difference between the two s-exes was not significant (P=0.19). Quality of life score was 0.6096±0.25 before surg-ery and 0.7782±0.22 after surgery and the differrence was statistically significant (P SP - 167 EP - 173 AU - mobasher, m AU - barooni, m AU - alidosti, m AU - yosefi, m AU - memarzade, e AU - behzadi, u AD - KW - quality of life KW - cataract KW - surgery UR - http://sjimu.medilam.ac.ir/article-1-1482-en.html ER -