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Table 4 Final structure of the FGVS.

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©)

Item

Sub-dimension

Dimension

Number

Label

  

1

Evaluation of eyesight since operation

Evaluation of the result

 

2

Change in life since operation

  
 

Feelings since operation

  

12

... Comfort

  

13

... Freedom

Feelings

 

14

... Well-being

 

Global evaluation

16

... Having new eyes

  

19

Eyesight problems in the past

  

20

Willingness to undergo surgery again

Global judgment

 

21

Willingness to recommend to others

  
 

Stop wearing glasses because

  

4

... Lenses steaming up

  

5

... Sliding down nose

Practical

 

6

... Cleaning lenses

advantages

 

7

... Frames restrictive

 

Advantages

11

... Pressing on nose

  

8

... No worry about breaking glasses

  

9

... No worry about scratching glasses

Psychological

 

10

... No worry about losing glasses

advantages

 

3

Bother of wearing glasses

  

17

Self-image

Not aggregated in a dimension

18

Other people's image of you