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Table 5 The National Eye Institute 25-item Visual Function Questionnaire (VFQ-25) composite score and 12 subscales in the Good group

From: Prospective study of vitrectomy for epiretinal membranes in patients with good best-corrected visual acuity

VFQ-25 questionnaire scale

Preoperative

Post-6 M

Post-12 M

Average ± SD

Average ± SD

P-value

Average ± SD

P-value

General health

45.9 ± 16.2

50.0 ± 14.9

0.09

53.6 ± 16.2

0.004*

General vision

59.5 ± 18.6

66.9 ± 17.5

0.005*

69.1 ± 16.3

0.0005*

Ocular pain

74.3 ± 19.3

83.2 ± 18.7

0.002*

81.1 ± 16.7

0.014*

Near activities

64.2 ± 17.2

67.4 ± 16.7

0.167

76.9 ± 15.1

< 0.0001*

Distance activities

75.4 ± 14.2

77.5 ± 11.4

0.45

79.4 ± 11.6

0.138

Social functioning

87.8 ± 16.3

85.4 ± 15.9

0.373

91.8 ± 10.5

0.178

Mental health

70.4 ± 22.3

76.4 ± 19.3

0.047*

79.8 ± 15.7

0.0023*

Role difficulties

80.4 ± 20.3

79.3 ± 18.9

0.815

82.5 ± 16.1

0.45

Dependency

89.0 ± 14.6

91.2 ± 14.6

0.237

93.1 ± 12.0

0.058

Driving

74.3 ± 18.5

74.2 ± 25.6

0.996

73.4 ± 24.5

0.906

Color vision

93.2 ± 15.2

94.3 ± 10.7

0.649

95.7 ± 9.6

0.332

Peripheral vision

70.3 ± 21.1

72.1 ± 19.0

0.684

77.9 ± 18.0

0.067

Composite score

75.3 ± 14.6

77.7 ± 11.8

0.19

82.0 ± 10.8

0.002*

  1. *significant difference from preoperative score (linear mixed-effect model) SD, standard deviation