Rehabilitation Methods for Patients with Geographic Atrophy due to Age-Related Macular Degeneration and Effects of Rehabilitation on Quality of Life

Table 4

The scores of the quality of life scales (NEI-VFQ-25) in the rehabilitation group (n = 57) before and after rehabilitation.

Quality of life scales	The median [Q1, Q3]
	Before rehabilitation	After rehabilitation
Overall composite score	45.59 [39, 53]	55.88 [48, 62]	<0.001
General health	50.00 [38, 60]	47.50 [38, 60]	0.3
General vision	40.00 [30, 45]	45.00 [31, 52]	0.009
Ocular pain	100.00 [100, 100]	100.00 [100, 100]	0.317
Near activities	25.00 [17, 29]	37.50 [33, 44]	<0.001
Distance activities	29.17 [21, 50]	41.67 [29, 54]	<0.001
Vision-specific:
Social functioning	50.00 [33, 67]	58.33 [46, 75]	<0.001
Mental health	50.00 [45, 65]	60.00 [55, 78]	<0.001
Role difficulties	25.00 [25, 47]	50.00 [38, 56]	<0.001
Dependency	68.75 [50, 78]	75 [56, 81]	<0.001
Color vision	100.00 [100, 100]	100.00 [100, 100]	0.317
Peripheral vision	75.00 [75, 100]	75.00 [50, 75]	0.183

Paired samples T-test. Statistically significant p values are shown in bold.