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Table 1 Patients' characteristics per country (n = 152 for France, n = 152 for Spain).

From: Measuring benefits and patients' satisfaction when glasses are not needed after cataract and presbyopia surgery: scoring and psychometric validation of the Freedom from Glasses Value Scale (FGVS©)

  

France (n = 152)

Spain (n = 152)

p-value of the difference*

Patients' socio-demographic characteristics

Age (years)

Mean (STD)

65 (7.5)

67 (8.9)

0.166

 

Median (min - max)

66 (51 - 80)

66 (51 - 83)

 

Gender

Males (%)

36

32

0.468

Patients' characteristics before surgery

 

Myopia (%)

22

34

0.010

Patients' vision**

Hyperopia (%)

74

59

0.012

 

Astigmatism (%)

35

63

< 0.001

 

Yes, multifocals (%)

59

60

 

Wearing glasses

Yes, single vision (%)

36

30

0.237

 

Yes, unknown type (%)

2

1

 
 

No (%)

4

9

 

Best corrected visual acuity

Mean (STD)

0.8 (0.2)

0.7 (0.2)

< 0.001

 

Median (min - max)

0.9 (0.3 - 1.2)

0.8 (0.1 - 1.0)

 

Patients' characteristics after surgery

 

Yes, always (%)

3

7

 

Wearing glasses

Yes, sometimes (%)

9

7

0.138

 

No/Never (%)

88

86

 

Other ocular disease (%)

7

7

0.821

  1. * Chi-square test for categorical variables, Mann-Whitney-Wilcoxon test for continuous variables
  2. In bold and italic, statistically significant p-values
  3. ** Myopia, hyperopia and astigmatism may occur simultaneously for some patients, explaining a total percentage by country higher than 100% for patients' vision